Laws Quotes · Page 24

“The law is a fine thing, even when it's wrong.”

— Jennifer Crusie

Laws do not persuade because they threaten

— Seneca

“He bet Law swatted flies by dropping buildings on them.”

— Jez Morrow

The law exists to protect the weak from the strong.

— Henry Hyde

“The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.”

— Brandon Sanderson

You have laws to protect oil men, so why not artists?

— Claude Picasso

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

— Nellie L. McClung

Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

— Hillary Clinton

The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.

— Janusz Korczak

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

— Otto von Bismarck

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it

— Anonymous

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

— Bob Dylan

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

— Solon

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

— Kathy Szeliga

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th…

— Juan Williams

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord…

— Matthew Desmond

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can…

— Sophocles

Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown…

— Rose George

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure…

— Robert Trout

“Exogenous and blind interpretation of statutes, topped with hustled implementation of laws by the corporates, leads only to more turmoil and less…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the…

— Leon Bourgeois

The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on,…

— Matteo Salvini

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

— John Stott

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

— Tacitus

The law is whatever people determine it to be.

— David Ben-Gurion

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

— Billy Sunday

“How can you follow a law when it's makers were corrupt?”

— Segun Magbagbeola

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

— Orson Scott Card

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

— Livy

Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them.

— Rod Rosenstein

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

— Thomas Jefferson

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

— Edward Coke

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

— Kathy Acker

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

— Harper Lee

With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.

— George Herbert

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

— Tacitus

“Sometimes regulations hinder and need to be broken or ignored.”

— Ben Carson

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

— Henry Ward Beecher