A Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss - Philosopher
September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881

Many historians will tell you that there are no laws of history and no great cycles that govern human events. History often appears more random than rhythmic. But if not patterns or cycles, there are certainly coincidences and some are so marked that they are hard not to notice.

David Olusoga

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

Harriot Kezia Hunt

I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.

Stephen Hawking

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Nicolas Chamfort

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

Wallace D. Wattles

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Isaac Asimov

There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.

Stephen Covey

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Diane Abbott

The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.

Hisham Matar

It's not about whether we should have a conservative or a liberal. It's about, do we have someone that has the mental acumen to understand what the laws are, and not write laws but defend the laws. That's the whole purpose of three branches of government.

Dave Rubin

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Otto von Bismarck

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

Robert A. Heinlein

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Voltaire

The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.