#laws

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#because #class #corn #every #existing

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#conscious #consciousness #essential #facts #fertile

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#laws #nation

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

Love, no matter how it’s expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn’t diminish it. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#love #love

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws. ↗

— George Gillespie

#determination #god #human #laws #left

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. ↗

— John Adams

#doing #god #his #laws #power

A government of laws, and not of men. ↗

— John Adams

#laws #men

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. ↗

— Tom Allen

#both #civil #civil rights #laws #protect