Laws Quotes · Page 33

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

— Mae West

When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate…

— Matt Gaetz

In Connecticut, we have passed some of the strongest anti-gun-violence laws in the nation. We don't restrict anybody's Second Amendment rights.

— Chris Murphy

I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.

— Scott Pruitt

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

— Truman Capote

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

— Matt Taibbi

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Let me make the superstitionsof a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

— Mark Twain

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they…

— Thomas Jefferson

“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by…

— Leo Tolstoy

In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but…

— Ernst Mach

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics…

— Kip Thorne

If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself…

— Eric Garcetti

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve…

— Jose Serrano

“Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the "existing order," or for the reestablishment…

— Alfred Korzybski

“Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way, Drumknott. It’s good for the hygiene of the brain.”

— Terry Pratchett

I believe there should be enforcement and redevelopment of anti-trust laws that fully regulate the media.

— Sam Seder

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

— Seneca the Younger

“..tho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.”

— David Mitchell

A top priority of my administration has been to strengthen laws for crime victims and their families.

— Chris Sununu

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only…

— Maude Royden

As we've seen over the course of the Trump administration's tenure, words can prove just as destructive as laws.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

You don't restore people's faith in law and order with shrill tones, but with real policies.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.

— Alex Berenson

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

— Ambrose Bierce

Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.

— Waris Dirie

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

— Max Weber

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

— Anne Hutchinson

It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.

— Emily Thornberry

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

— Myrtle Reed

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

— Victor Hugo

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their…

— Jesse Jackson

The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.

— Jared Polis

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in…

— H. P. Lovecraft