“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansWellsMayPhilosophyLawPoliticalLife IsForceLeaderStruggleHuman NatureCivilizationToughSurfaceSelfishSuperiorsGrantedSpiteRealisticBusinessmanJungleCunningInfluentialPolitical LeadersCaliberRuthlessnessVeneerLife Is A Struggle Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“I believe Islam is superior. And will not be surpassed. So I believe that the law of God is much superior to man-made law.” MenBelieveMadeLawI BelieveIslamSuperiors Author:Anjem Choudary
“A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.” LawOrderInterestCommonSuperiorsRationalRecognizingTranscendingCommon Law Book:Essays in the Public Philosophy Source: Essays in the Public Philosophy
“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.” KnowsMayLawCertainOrderKnownConditionsHigherOrdinaryMiracleContrarySuperiorsInferiorsLaws Of Nature Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
“Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.” WellsKindActionLawNationsBoundsSuperiorsRationalAll KindsInferiorsIrrationalMechanicLaws Of NatureComprehensiveGravitationOpticsLaws Of Motion Book:Commentaries on the Laws of England Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England
“As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind; while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.” MindHumansBodyAgeLawMoralHuman NatureEvolutionIntellectualClaimsSuperiorsProgressionSubordinatesStrength Of Mind Author:James McCosh
“If someone says you are not capable or can't have something, keep pushing because you can. And it's not because you're special, but it's because everyone possesses the ability to be awesome. The reason people say, 'No, you can't,' 'God doesn't want you to,' or they make laws is because they know that you have that in you. And they are scared to lose their superior standing.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantReasonLawLosesAbilitySpecialCapableStandingScaredSuperiorsPushing Author:Philip DeFranco
“It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force.” StatesWould BeLawIndividualForcePowerfulStruggleGroupsSubjectsMaterialsIllusionDecidedCompetitionInternationalSuperiorsOrganizedContestsNegotiationTransfersRivalryRaw MaterialsFrictionRecourseRoad To Serfdom Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.” EndsBodyLawNationsInterestEconomicJudgingBehaviorBoundsSupremeSuperiorsConsiderationBowsRepresentativesClashTransactions Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.” HumansReasonLawIndividualNaturalJusticeResponsibilityConscienceConstitutionIndependenceInstitutionsSuperiorsIndividual RightsFree Thought Author:John Goodwin