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> [“Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/even-when-the-laws-have-been-written-down-they-ought-not-always/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-brooke/britain-s-legal-structure-is-basically-the-same-as-in-feudal-times/)

[Heather Brooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-brooke/)

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> [The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-schmidt/the-average-american-doesn-t-realize-how-much-of-the-laws-are-written/)

[Eric Schmidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-schmidt/)

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> [The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laozi/the-more-laws-that-are-written-the-more-criminals-are-produced/)

[Laozi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laozi/)

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> [Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/certain-laws-have-not-been-written-but-they-are-more-fixed-than-all/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-schmidt/the-average-american-doesnt-realize-how-much-of-the-laws-are-written/)

[Eric Schmidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-schmidt/)

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> [It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-paul-stevens/it-is-not-our-job-to-apply-laws-that-have-not-yet-been-written/)

[John Paul Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-paul-stevens/)

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> [Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/even-when-laws-have-been-written-down-they-ought-not-always-to-remain/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-rice/our-founding-fathers-created-the-executive-branch-to-implement-and/)

[Tom Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-rice/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/698/tom-rice-108613_branch_our-founding-fathers-created-the-executi_1029242.jpg)

> [We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/we-need-laws-written-by-people-who-have-confronted-life-in-the-real/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

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> [Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/laws-written-if-not-on-stone-tables-yet-on-the-azure-of-infinitude-in/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

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> [In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/in-this-world-laws-are-written-for-the-lofty-aim-of-the-common-good/)

[Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/)

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> [Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-mann/let-but-the-public-mind-become-once-thoroughly-corrupt-and-all/)

[Horace Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-mann/)

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> [It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/it-would-be-a-narrow-conception-of-jurisprudence-to-confine-the/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

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> [Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirin-ebadi/usually-in-any-revolution-people-are-focused-on-who-wants-to-have-the/)

[Shirin Ebadi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirin-ebadi/)

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> [It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/it-is-likewise-to-be-observed-that-this-society-hath-a-peculiar-chant/)

[Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/)

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> [I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-papineau/i-think-that-there-are-non-physical-laws-all-right-genuine-if-not/)

[David Papineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-papineau/)

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> [When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/when-the-laws-are-written-and-administered-by-the-most-powerful/)

[Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/)

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> [Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/even-when-laws-have-been-written-down-they-ought-not-always-to-remain-2/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/of-course-the-truth-is-that-the-congresspersons-are-too-busy-raising/)

[Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/)

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> [“The rules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues and Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ragnar-redbeard/the-rules-of-life-are-not-to-be-found-in-korans-bibles-decalogues-and/)

[Ragnar Redbeard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ragnar-redbeard/)

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> [ “The chief care of the legislators \[in the colonies of New England\] was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/the-chief-care-of-the-legislators-in-the-colonies-of-new-england-was/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [Too many of our laws were written during a time of open racism and discrimination, and they still bear the traces of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-northam/too-many-of-our-laws-were-written-during-a-time-of-open-racism-and/)

[Ralph Northam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-northam/)

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                        "text": "I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on. But I don't regard that as a contentious issue. Even reductionists about chemistry will think that there are special chemical laws whose formulation makes essential use of chemical terminology.",
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                        "text": "Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the US tax code, you'd find at least one sex scene. (\"Yes, yes, YES!\" moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture...)",
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                        "text": "“The rules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues and Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and death. The “law of laws” is not written in Hebrew consonants or upon tables of brass and stone, but in every man’s own heart. He who obeys any standard of right and wrong, but the one set up by his own conscience, betrays himself into the hands of his enemies, who are ever laying in wait to bind him to their millstones. And generally a man’s most dangerous enemies are his neighbors.”",
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                        "text": "“The chief care of the legislators [in the colonies of New England] was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in the community: thus they constantly invaded the domain of conscience, and there was scarcely a sin which was no subject to magisterial censure. The reader is aware of the rigor with which these laws punished rape and adultery; intercourse between unmarried persons was likewise severely repressed. The judge was empowered to inflict either a pecuniary penalty, a whipping, or marriage, on the misdemeanants; and if the records of the old courts of New Haven may be believed, prosecutions of this kind were not unfrequent. We find a sentence, bearing date the 1st of May, 1660, inflicting a fine and reprimand on a young woman who was accused of using improper language, and of allowing herself to be kissed. The Code of 1650 abounds in preventive measures. It punishes idleness and drunkenness with severity. Innkeepers were forbidden to furnish more than certain quantities of liquor to each customer; and simple lying, whenever it may be injurious, is checked by a fine or a flogging. In other places, the legislator, entirely forgetting the great principles of religious toleration which he had himself demanded in Europe, makes attendance on divine service compulsory, and goes so far as to visit with severe punishment, and even with death, Christians who choose to worship God according to a ritual differing from his own. Sometimes, indeed, the zeal for regulation induces him to descend to the most frivolous particulars: thus a law is to be found in the same code which prohibits the use of tobacco. It must not be forgotten that these fantastical and vexatious laws were not imposed by authority, but that they were freely voted by all the persons interested in them , and that the manners of the community were even more austere and puritanical than the laws… These errors are no doubt discreditable to human reason; they attest the inferiority of our nature, which is incapable of laying firm hold upon what is true and just, and is often reduced to the alternative of two excesses. In strict connection with this penal legislation, which bears such striking marks of a narrow, sectarian spirit, and of those religious passions which had been warmed by persecution and were still fermenting among the people, a body of political laws is to be found, which, though written two hundred years ago, is still in advance of the liberties of our own age.”",
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                        "text": "Too many of our laws were written during a time of open racism and discrimination, and they still bear the traces of inequity.",
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