Great Throughts Treasury

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

Related Quotes

F. A. Hayek, fully Friedrich August Hayek or von Hayek

It is… the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Equality | Law | People |

Arthur Goldberg, fully Arthur Joseph Goldberg

Law is not served by power is an illusion, but power not ruled by law is a menace.

Illusion | Law | Power |

William Ralph Inge

The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years.

Belief | Faith | Humanity | Law | Nature | Progress |

Wilhelm von Humboldt, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt

The moral law obliges us to regard every man as an end in himself.

Law | Man | Moral law | Regard |

P. A. R. Janet and G. Sèailles

The law of duty demands moral perfection or holiness. But this is impossible in our present life, therefore it can only be attained by an indefinite progress, and this progress is only possible under the hypothesis of an existence and a personality that re indefinitely prolonged.

Duty | Existence | Hypothesis | Law | Life | Life | Perfection | Personality | Present | Progress |

William J. Kenealy

No man has a moral right to use his property, a creature of God, against the children of God. Racial discrimination even in the use of purely private property, is immoral at least as transgressing the supreme law of charity.

Charity | Children | God | Law | Man | Property | Right |

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

All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin… This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.

Eternal | Law | Nature | Nothing | Wisdom | Work |

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 |