Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus
NatureLawRulesSameObeyCannot
I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
Mercedes McCambridge
HateYearsCannotThanSustain
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Leslie Stephen
TruthWithoutCannotFalsehood
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor
HappyBe HappyBecauseCannot
Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.
Brad Schneider
SystemCannotElected OfficialsFunds
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
Alain Rene Le Sage
JusticePayFineCannotTooThing
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin
FriendshipLoveRealCannotOverlook
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
Leo Szilard
MeDoneAlwaysSomethingCannot
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
Viktor Orban
LawAboveCannotBrusselsItself
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Arthur Eddington
NatureCannotOnlyUndoWhichThing
The United States is the least protectionist country in the world but has the largest trade deficit, while other countries are highly protectionist and have huge trade surpluses. This cannot continue.
Wilbur Ross
WorldCountryUnitedTradeCannot
When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.
Steve Easterbrook
YouSituationWayOutCannotYour
We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
Kofi Annan
WarTelevisionWhereCannotLeaders
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Victor Cousin
GoodBeautifulWayCannotOnlyHoly
One cannot negotiate under fire.
Ariel Sharon
FireCannotNegotiate
You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
Viola Davis
WinYouCannotSimplyRolesEmmy
We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.
Stephen Vincent Benet
LiveSoulHouseWillDividedCannot
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
Jane Alexander
I CanNowAnythingCannotApproved
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Samuel Adams
BusinessEventsImproveCannotOur
If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
Antonin Scalia
FeelingsMoralThingsAgainstCannot
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Voltaire
SpeakAlwaysCannotObligeWe Cannot
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Sophocles
NothingFortuneCannotWhoAid
It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
James Mill
GoodBadCannotKnownHowThing
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie
ThoughtPlaceCannotReligiousAllow
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