Laws Quotes · Page 21

Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

— Mrthrill

“Where is the law that says people should do as they please?”

— Anton Chekhov

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

— Jean Monnet

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

— Narendra Modi

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.

— Shannon Briggs

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

— Honore de Balzac

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

— Bob Dylan

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

— Seneca the Younger

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place…

— Michel de Montaigne

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective…

— Trofim Lysenko

Those people… early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to…

— Mark Twain

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama.…

— Faye Wattleton

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and…

— Charles Dickens

Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of…

— Colleen Hanabusa

So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the…

— Vicente Fox

Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.

— Austin O'Malley

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

— Aphra Behn

The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

— John Nance Garner

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love obeys no laws other than its own.

— Lauren Oliver

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

— Big Pun

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

— Frederic Bastiat

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

— George Carlin

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

— Paul Levine

“There are things to be obtained by law and things to be obtained by claw”

— Agona Apell

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

— Blaise Pascal

Sometimes you have to go above the law.

— Fawn Hall

The law of the street was take or be taken.

— Lucky Luciano

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

— Jamie Dimon

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

— Edmund Burke

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

— Suzanne La Follette