Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Lawyer’s Rule NULL

When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, call the other lawyers’s names.

Law |

Barbara Kingsolver

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Law |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Important | Law | Love | Man | Think |

Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

The more law and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

Law |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its justice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Conscience | Individual | Justice | Law | Reality | Respect | Respect |

Thomas Merton

The law of our life can be summed up in the axiom “be what you are.”

Law | Life | Life |

John Locke

Nobody ought to be compelled in matters of religion either by law or force.

Force | Law | Religion |

José Martí, fully José Julián Martí Pérez

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

Law | Life | Life | Will | Work |

John McClaughry

[McClaughry’s Law of Public Policy] Politicians who vote huge expenditures to alleviate problems get reelected; those who propose structural changes to prevent problems get early retirement.

Law | Policy | Problems | Public | Retirement |

William Penn

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment, and the reason is, that one springs from a union of souls, and the other from an union of sense.

Enjoyment | Love | Lust | Reason | Sense |

Charles De Montesquieu, formally Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Justice | Law | Tyranny |

Cecil Northcott

Toleration… is not true liberty when it is only a gracious concession by the state to the individual. Gracious concessions are incompatible with liberty of religion which is not something that a state, or an absolutist church offers, but that which the citizen claims and the law protects.

Church | Individual | Law | Liberty | Religion | Toleration |

Joseph Murphy

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Law | Life | Life | Nature | Need | Reflection | Thinking | Thought | World | Thought |

Oscar Romero, formally Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez

No soldier is obliged to obey an order counter to the law of God. No one has to comply with an immoral law. It is time now that you recover your conscience and obey its dictates rather than the command of sin.

Conscience | God | Law | Order | Sin | Time |

Shantideva NULL

The whole earth cannot satisfy the lust of the flesh; who can do its will? To him who longs for the impossible come guilt and bafflement of desire; but he who is utterly without desire has a happiness that ages not.

Desire | Earth | Guilt | Lust | Will | Happiness |