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«Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.»
Author: Arthur J. Goldberg
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
by law, menace, nuclear, Nuclear Age, nuclear power, ruled, served
«Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.»
Author: William Graham Sumner
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by law, civil law, civil liberties, civil liberty, employment, exclusive, guaranteed, institutions, status, welfare
«Law and religion are two forces which govern the conduct of men. At times they act as handmaids to each other. At other times they act as check and counter-check. Of the two forces, Law is personal while religion is impersonal. Law being personal it is capable of being unjust and iniquitous. But religion being impersonal, it can be impartial, it is capable of defeating the inequity committed by law. Religion is believed to ennoble man and not degrade him. Hinduism is an exception.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
act as, by law, counter, defeating, degrade, ennoble, ennobles, handmaids, Hinduism, impartial, impersonal, inequities, inequity, iniquitous, unjust
«You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.»
«Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Persecution
| Keywords:
by law, established, established religion, feature, marked, original, persecution, persecutions, religions, strongly
«You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society»
«If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fanaticism,
Freedom,
Hell,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
by law, fanaticism, freedom of religion, guaranteed, inquisition, inquisitions, in practice, in theory, overbear, overbearing, overborne, practice of law, prevail, public opinion, the Inquisition
«Taste cannot be controlled by law»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Control,
Justice
| Keywords:
by law, controlled
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