Justice & Rights Sayings

100 sayings found from the Modern era from 100 authors

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
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I am the law, and the law is me.

— Idi Amin c. 1971-1979
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An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

— Sun Yat-sen Approx. 1920s
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The greatest crime of the age is to be poor.

— J.P. Morgan unknown
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You have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt 1868
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It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

— Edgar Allan Poe c. 1840s
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I defy all the world to show a more perfect law than the one that is given to us.

— Joseph Smith 1834
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We are like a judge who has to sum up and deliver judgment, not on the evidence of witnesses, but on the arguments of counsel.

— Charles Darwin 1859
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I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland.

— Nikola Tesla 1936
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The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself.

— Michael Faraday Mid 19th Century (approx.)
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The periodic law is now so firmly established that no one can gainsay its fundamental truth.

— Dmitri Mendeleev 1905
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The freedom of thought and speech must be preserved in all circumstances.

— Max Planck Unknown
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Light and justice are not goods, but they are the condition of goods.

— Niels Bohr Unknown
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If we were to take the wave function to be a complete description of reality, then the living and dead cat would indeed be equally real.

— Erwin Schrodinger 1935
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I have been trying to invent a demon who could violate the second law of thermodynamics, but he keeps getting drunk on entropy.

— James Clerk Maxwell 1867
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The future will judge my work more fairly than the present.

— Gregor Mendel 1870s
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The Analytical Engine is the only thing that will ever be able to do justice to the great and complicated calculations of the universe.

— Ada Lovelace 1843
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Space is a great equalizer.

— Wernher von Braun 1960s
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

— Salvador Dali 1960s-1970s (approx.)
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

— Andy Warhol c. 1975-1980s
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