Laws Quotes · Page 24

“The laws of genetics apply even if you refuse to learn them.”

— Allison Plowden

“LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

— Publilius Syrus

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

— Louis XIV

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

— Plautus

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

— Thomas Jefferson

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

— Brian Greene

The laws of the Universe are responding to me.

— Esther Hicks

I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just…

— Jens Lekman

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

— Anonymous

“The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white…

— Agona Apell

“Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.”

— Anonymous

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

— Robert Pinsky

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

— Orson Welles

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

— Thomas Carlyle

Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in…

— Viktor Schauberger

“This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either…

— Manal al-Sharif

We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed…

— Walter Salles

“a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with…

— Judith Butler

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know,…

— Dahlia Lithwick

“USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government…

— Steven Magee

“All the law is not in the hands of Giant Despair.”

— Anonymous

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

— Amy Klobuchar

As love knoweth no laws, so it regardeth no conditions.

— John Lyly

“They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.”

— Bryant McGill

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

— Vivien Leigh

The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.

— Hisham Matar

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

— Charles Darwin

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

— Bob Black

“When once the law is evoked it cannot be stayed again, and”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

— Baron de Montesquieu

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

— Saint Augustine

I don't think we need more gun control laws.

— John Kennedy

But democracy needs structure to work, in the form of laws and policies.

— Katty Kay

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone