#laws

It strikes me you might place your gifts better. Why should you send powder to a ruffian who will use it to commit crimes? But for the deplorable weakness every one here seems to have for the bandits, they would have disappeared out of Corsica long ago." "The worst men in our country are not those who are 'in the country.'" "Give them bread, if it so please you. But I will not have you supply them with ammunition." "Brother," said Colomba, in a serious voice, "you are master here, and everything in this house belongs to you. But I warn you that I will give this little girl my mezzaro, so that she may sell it; rather than refuse powder to a bandit. ↗

— Prosper Mérimée

#corsica #honor #outlaws #men

If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good? ↗

— Victoria Stoklasa

#inspirational #law #laws #political #political-commentary

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values") ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#morals #physics #universe #values #inspirational

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down. ↗

— Jessica Lave

#flaws #inspirational #mistakes #perseverance #inspirational

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#obeys #paradise #petty #politician #republic

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#completely #each #extensions #generated #generates

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. ↗

— Aristophanes

#laws #lead #life #people #same

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#attorney #attorney general #choose #defend #doing

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#defend #frivolous #how #lawsuit #matter