A Quote by Immanuel Kant
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law... Not one jot or tittle of the laws of Nature are unfulfilled. I do not believe it is possible to state this fact too strongly... Everything happens according to law, and, since law is the expression of Divine will, everything happens according to Divine will, i.e. is in some sense ordained, decreed.
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
So act that anything you do may become universal law.
I do not agree with the use of 'signing statements' to effectively act as a line-item veto, except when the President believes a law or a provision within a law is unconstitutional.In general, if a President signs a law, they are committing themselves to enforcing it. If they don't believe it should become a law, they should veto it.
Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
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