#law

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#correction #creative #customs #encourage #help

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#became #being #cases #child #child abuse

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. ↗

— Andrew Marvell

#creatures #doth #except #first #great

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. ↗

— Karl Marx

#change #circumstances #different #expose #form

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#claws #hasn #much #sharpened #she

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.' ↗

— Chris Matthews

#answer #any #heat #him #his

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#global #important #important thing #law #most

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#between #determination #exact #exact science #founded

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#beautiful #depict #fall #feels #flaws

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#done #grew #i #law #law school