„In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap — as measured by the pay — that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.“

„There’s always a certain number of suckers and a certain number of men lookin’ for a chance to take them in, and the suckers are sure to be took one way or another. It’s the everlastin’ law of demand and supply. p. 60“

—  George Washington Plunkitt New York State Senator 1842 - 1924

Chapter 14 Tammany the Only Lastin’ Democracy

„There was that law of life so cruel and so just which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.“

—  Norman Mailer, kniha Barbary Shore

Zdroj: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 26

„Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.“

—  Wendell Berry author 1934

"Economy and Pleasure".
What Are People For? (1990)

„Without a market in which allocations can be made in obedience to the law of supply and demand, it is difficult or impossible to funnel resources with respect to actual human preferences and goals.“

—  Tibor R. Machan Hungarian-American philosopher 1939 - 2016

Liberty and Research and Development: Science Funding in a Free Society, Introduction chapter: “Some Skeptical Reflections on Research and Development”, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University (2002) p. xiii http://media.hoover.org/documents/0817929428_xi.pdf

„Insurrections!—The world, with its Wealth of Nations, Supply-and-demand and such like, has of late days been terribly inattentive to that question of work and wages. We will not say, the poor world has retrograded even here: we will say rather, the world has been rushing on with such fiery animation to get work and ever more work done, it has had no time to think of dividing the wages; and has merely left them to be scrambled for by the Law of the Stronger, law of Supply-and-demand, law of Laissez-faire, and other idle Laws and Un-laws.“

—  Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

„A casus omissus can in no case be supplied by a Court of law, for that would be to make laws.“

—  Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet British judge 1746 - 1800

Jones v. Smart (1785), 1 T. R. 52.

„Our generation can change this. We know what the problems are and we know what the solutions are, but we have to demand that our elected officials and business leaders take action. At the federal and state level, we have to fight efforts to repeal equal pay laws. We have to support increases in the minimum wage. And we have to demand that the United States join our global competitors in giving workers paid leave. All these issues affect our individual financial health and the strength of our collective economy.“

—  Sandra Fluke American women's rights activist and lawyer 1981

CNN, (April 17, 2012).
Articles

„I'm a businessman. I've made my money supplying a popular demand. If I break the law, my customers are as guilty as I am.“

—  Al Capone American gangster 1899 - 1947

„So she was Greek, was she?’ said Sir Benjamin. ‘Well, well. I suppose the new vice laws are driving some of them out of Soho. Driving them down here,’ he said, as though a whole new world were opening up. ‘Well.“

—  Anthony Burgess English writer 1917 - 1993

Fiction, The Eve of St. Venus (1964)

„But policing, crime prevention and detection, is a Red Queen’s race: You have to run as fast as you possibly can just to stand still. You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there’ll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers. It’s like there’s a law of nature: Not only is the job never done, the job can never be done.“

—  Charles Stross, kniha Rule 34

Zdroj: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 20, “Liz: Bereavement Counselling” (p. 229)

„New times demand new measures and new men;
The world advances, and in time outgrows
The laws which in our father's times were best;
And doubtless, after us, some purer scheme
Will be shaped out by wiser men than we,
Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.“

—  James Russell Lowell American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891

A Glance Behind the Curtain (1843)

„Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.“

—  Learned Hand American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872 - 1961

Commissioner v. Newman https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6284821606579578514, 159 F2d 848 (1947).
Judicial opinions

„Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

On History (1904)
1900s
Kontext: It is true that numerous instances are not always necessary to establish a law, provided the essential and relevant circumstances can easily be disentangled. But, in history, so many circumstances of a small and accidental nature are relevant, that no broad and simple uniformities are possible. Where our main endeavour is to discover general laws, we regard these as intrinsically more valuable than any of the facts which they inter-connect. In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details... But in history the matter is far otherwise... Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.

„Development cannot be left to complete improvisation. It is necessary to plan the construction of the new society. Planning is one of the laws of socialism, and without it, socialism would not exist. Without correct planning there can be no adequate guarantee that all the various sectors of a country's economy will combine harmoniously to take the leaps forward that our epoch demands.“

—  Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)

„It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it's a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws. […] Between a man and a young woman, what will the entrepreneur think? 'Damn, this woman's got a ring on her finger, she'll be pregnant soon, she'll be on maternity leave for six months…' […] Who's going to pay the bill? The employer. In the end it's deducted from social security but he says "the work rhythm is broken. And when she returns, she'll take a month-long vacation. In the end, she works five months in one year." […] I'm a liberal. If I want to hire you at my company paying you R$ 2,000.00 a month and Ms. Mary paying her R$ 1,500.00, and if Ms. Mary doesn't want to earn that amount, she must look for another job! If you think you also are not earning so much, look for another job. It is I who am paying you; I am the boss.“

—  Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian president elect 1955

In an interview with Zero Hora newspaper https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/politica/noticia/2014/12/bolsonaro-diz-que-nao-teme-processos-e-faz-nova-ofensa-nao-merece-ser-estuprada-porque-e-muito-feia-cjkf8rj3x00cc01pi3kz6nu2e.html on 10 December 2014. Brazil presidential candidate Bolsonaro's most controversial quotes https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-presidential-candidate-bolsonaros-most-controversial-quotes-012652084.html. Yahoo!, 29 September 2018.

„The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.“

—  Kim Stanley Robinson, kniha The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 9: "Nsara", § 5
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

„There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.“

—  Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

„Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.“

—  Stephen R. Covey American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker 1932 - 2012

Zdroj: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11

„The Laws ought to be so framed, as to secure the Safety of every Citizen as much as possible.“

—  Catherine the Great Empress of Russia 1729 - 1796

Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
Kontext: The Laws ought to be so framed, as to secure the Safety of every Citizen as much as possible.<!-- Item 33