Famous quotes containing the word law:
“It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)
“The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)
“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)