Laws Quotes · Page 34

The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

— Shereen El Feki

Acts and laws are for people. People are not for Acts and laws. Acts and laws should be simple.

— Uddhav Thackeray

Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?

— William Powell

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts…

— Robert Kennedy

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions…

— Omar al-Bashir

When you can attack legislation and get laws and the system changed, that's going to bring a real impact, but we can't…

— Jason McCourty

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it…

— Archibald MacLeish

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn…

— Tariq Ramadan

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the…

— Ted Cruz

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in…

— Michael Moriarty

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening…

— Jim Jeffords

“I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor…

— Toba Beta

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries…

— Anonymous

To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work…

— David Gross

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

— Peter Kropotkin

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

— Arancha Gonzalez

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.--Mark Twain”

— Andi Marquette

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the…

— Fredrik Bajer

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his…

— Nancy Gibbs

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

— Gever Tulley

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

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal…

— David Frost

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed…

— Alan Siegel

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

— Henry Charles Carey

“We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken…

— Michel Templet

“In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.”

— Norris Henderson

If the federal government will not enforce the immigration laws, our state and local law enforcement should be empowered to do so.

— Tommy Tuberville

There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

— Sally Yates

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

— Jonathan Swift

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

— Voltaire

Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them

— Fred Rodell

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

— Cynthia Payne