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“Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.”

People Hands Law Values Order Culture Rights Policy Judging Shapes Strikes Public Policy Constitutional Rights

Author:Orrin Hatch

“Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.”

Kind Law Strong Shapes All Kinds Occasions Bent Rope Twisted

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.”

“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.”

Men Humans Children Reason Reality Law Spirit Poor Moral Wife Subjects Materials Shapes Concern Pressure Misery Eras Autonomy Cunning Workshops Supplements Introverted

Author:Max Horkheimer

“I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.”

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.”

Ifs May Shows Law Culture Growth Shapes Capable Length Casting Resisting Stature Impediments Casting Off

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

“Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.”

Men Law Fighting Language Teach Battle Shapes Pyramids

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues