Richard Hooker Quotes

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

The priest accustoms the child to the idea of law, to make it obey better what he calls the "divine law," and the lawyer prates of divine law, that the civil law may be the better obeyed.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something?" asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.