| "Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera |
| "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav |
| "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
| "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." »Edmund Burke |
| "In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle." »Colin Wilson |
| "Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk -- to be true to ourselves." »Jim Webb |
| "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." »Yasutani Roshi |
| "The human mind is our fundamental resource." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him." »John Selden |
| "The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society." »Richard Royster |
| "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be." »Raymond Chandler |
| "The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius |
| "You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law." »John and Brand, Josh Falsey |
| "The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy |
| "The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough." »Heinrich Heine |
| "It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence." »Marquis de Vauvenargues |
| "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." »Albert Camus |
| "All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut." »Louis Booker Wright |
| "There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." »Sister Mary Rose McGeady |
| "Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |
| "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." »Albert Einstein |
| "Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open." »Clive |
| "We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide." »Nathan M. Pusey |
| "American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror." »Betty Naomi Friedan |
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