Famous quotes containing the words natural law, liberal, natural and/or law:
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency—indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman—but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Custom is our nature.... What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)