Laws Quotes · Page 35

Virginia's laws reinforce parents' fundamental rights to make decisions with regards to their child's upbringing and care.

— Glenn Youngkin

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

— Vernon Howard

“I'm trying to help you." "I don't know what you're doing, but I'm sure there are laws about it!”

— Anonymous

It may not come immediately, nor from the obvious source but the law applies unfailingly, through some invisible force.

— Ritu Ghatourey

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

— Murray Gell-Mann

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by…

— William Blackstone

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

— Millard Fillmore

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

— George Boole

“New laws, new restrictions, new regulations, were put in place regularly. The purpose was always to crush, to destroy, not to aid.…

— Barbara Morgenroth

“No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you…

— Samuel R. Delany

“RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW BEWARE OF DOG ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES DO NOT STEAL QUEENS A GIRL IN THE WILD…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a…

— David Harsanyi

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle…

— Ernestine Rose

Racism in the stadiums must be defeated, but to succeed, even before the laws of sport, those of the State will be…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because…

— Vikram Seth

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.

— Tom Noddy

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and…

— Toby Keith

While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination…

— Dominic Raab

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.

— Samael Aun Weor

The benefits of shooting in Indonesia, we are very independent from union laws.

— Gareth Evans

Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation's gun laws.

— Lucy McBath

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

— John Updike

“You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or…

— Nelsan Ellis

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

— Gloria Steinem

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

— Edward Weston

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say…

— Henry David Thoreau

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

— Ari Melber

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

— Orrin Hatch

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same. ~Crow

— Aroha Janet

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

— Ferruccio Busoni

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

— Thomas Carlyle

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

— A. P. Herbert

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

— Edward Coke

“With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity.”

— Bryant McGill

“Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.”

— Rousas John Rushdoony

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and…

— Ardel Wray

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation…

— Thomas Cooper

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

— Michael Moore