First Law Quotes

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

One thing that is not commonly taught in history classes is that the United States passed the first law of any nation outlawing slavery. That showed the world that it could be done. The state of Pennsylvania passed that law even before there were anti-slavery societies. If a slave owner from another state brought a slave to Pennsylvania and stayed for more than six months, the slave was free.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

The First Law of Politics: Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

Self preservation is the first law of nature and governments.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are, and must be greater than the rest -

Order is heaven's first law.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton's first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It's good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things.

The price of oil and the pace of freedom always move in opposite directions. It’s the First Law of Petropolitics.

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

The first law of disaster relief could well read: every political decision has humanitarian consequences, and every humanitarian program has political implications.