#laws

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

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong. ↗

— Leonard Bacon

#form #government #laws #nothing #order

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. ↗

— Bob Barr

#argue #challenges #difficult #impossible #intelligence

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? ↗

— Marion Barry

#because #congress #deem #does #go