Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

Abraham Lincoln

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

George Bernard Shaw

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

James Adams

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Carol Moseley Braun

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Rob Johnson

We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go.

Agnes Repplier

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Aasif Mandvi

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.

Kinky Friedman

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

Gary Johnson

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

Moses Mendelssohn

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

Rufus King

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

William O. Douglas

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.