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Letter "N" » natural law
«The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
citizens, civil, civil law, civil liberties, civil liberty, diminishes, increases, mischief, natural law, restrains, The Natural
«There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
breathing, gait, natural law, perish, upright
«Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.»
Author: St. Jerome
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
act as, General will, maxim, natural action, natural law
«Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
assumes, demonstrated, inconsistent, natural law, natural laws, natural science, opposed, permanence, rests, uniformity
«The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
acted, at rest, external, force of law, inertia, motion, natural law, straight line, uniform
«It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human»
«Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
hidden, Laws, manifestation, natural, natural law, natural laws, otherwise
«The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
God,
Men
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, Law of God, natural causes, natural law, The Bird, The Birds, Traditions, traps, turn around
«Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
code, complemented, complements, morals, Moral code, natural law, The Code
«No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
aggression, aggressions, commit, Equal rights, Laws, natural, natural law, Natural right, natural rights, restrain, restrains, rights
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