#laws

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#administer #battle #brotherhood #cannot #devotion

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#development #grandest #grow #law #laws

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ↗

— Euclid

#laws #mathematical #nature #thoughts

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#compositional #does #each #encountered #everything

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws. ↗

— Donald Fagen

#flaws #i #look #nature #often

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#believe #blame #character #dishonesty #flaws

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. ↗

— Michael Faraday

#consistent #laws #nature #nothing #too

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#before #europe #everyday #everyday lives #govern