It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Unknown
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
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Aristotle
Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
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R. Kelly
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not...
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Learned Hand
I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and a rational view of...
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Marguerite Yourcenar
More Quotes By Maxim Gorky
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients. The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution. This is a case in...
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
