Religious Corporation Law

Famous quotes containing the words religious, corporation and/or law:

“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)