Laws Quotes · Page 37

We don't have blasphemy laws in England and Wales, and it's not the police's job to enforce non-existent religious blasphemy laws.

— Suella Braverman

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

— Rebecca West

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

— Anonymous

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

— Anonymous

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

— Stokely Carmichael

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin…

— Henry Fox

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are…

— Levi Woodbury

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when…

— Edward Jenks

Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their…

— Okky Madasari

Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of…

— Vilfredo Pareto

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics…

— Stephen Hawking

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation…

— Richard P. Feynman

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take…

— John L. Lewis

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom,…

— Ronald Reagan

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

— Rohinton Mistry

“When the law doesn't protect people, then people protect themselves with breaking the law.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

— Ken Starr

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

— Nick Harkaway

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

— Iain Banks

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

— Terri Sewell

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them…

— Michel de Montaigne

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

— Joe Arpaio

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil…

— Adam Hamilton

When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can't rely on judicial discretion alone.

— Eric Adams

“The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

— Learned Hand

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

— Frank Herbert

We all need good laws, and an independent, impartial, and efficient judiciary to verify the constitutionality of those laws.

— Rohini Nilekani

Who? R.C. I break laws and make laws You do WHAT? Break jaws and take yours.

— Red Cafe

“If I, who am rhu'ad, do not break the laws," she said, "then no one will ever dare to break them, and…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

— Gabrielle Giffords

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

— Susan Bysiewicz

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

— Marjane Satrapi

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Anyone shall take law in their hands, but not a judge and I call it as professional ethics.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

There are probably deal-makers out there who wish we didn't have the antitrust laws.

— Lina Khan

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

— Wendell Phillips