"The failure of love, that's what all laws are really."

-- Colman McCarthy

#Peace Quotes #Law Quotes

“Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.”
“I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.”
“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”
“The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.”

Source : F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes
“Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.”

Source : Quoted by Charu Chandra Banerjee in a speech at Dhaka Purva Bangla Brahmo Samaj; "Brahmananda Keshub Chunder Sen: Testimonies in Memoriam" compiled by G.C.Banerji, Allahabad, 1934.
“Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.”
“I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.”

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