Laws Quotes · Page 30

Congress should live by the same laws it passes on to the rest of the nation.

— Elise Stefanik

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

— Mark Twain

The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

— George Herbert

“The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.”

— Peter Lake

As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there…

— Frederick Lenz

“I mean . . . it's not really breaking the law if you're helping people, right? Surely that's a flaw in the…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

— David Hare

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

— Rebecca Skloot

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms…

— Plato

Once E.U. law ceases to be supreme it is unclear how this vast body of law, which will then be incorporated into…

— Dominic Grieve

There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We will not…

— Marine Le Pen

The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach -…

— Chris Gabrieli

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

— Chris Matthews

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

— Murray Rothbard

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

— Walter Lippmann

“If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do…

— Victoria Stoklasa

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

— Marsilio Ficino

'Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people find a way around the LAWS!' PLATO…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.”

— Arcesilaus

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep…

— Gerry Spence

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

— George Mason

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

— George Pataki

The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.

— Shaun King

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

— Roscoe Pound

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

— Boss Tweed

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

— Ralph Chaplin

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

— Abraham Lincoln

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

— Asma Jahangir

If the American people or Congress agrees with the illegal-alien lobby that deportation is morally abhorrent, the immigration laws should be changed.

— Heather Mac Donald

“If a law does not work even in one place where it ought to, it is just wrong.”

— Richard Feynman

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

— Jane Siberry

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can…

— Solon

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at…

— Aaron Swartz

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

— Ellen Wittlinger

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on…

— Albert Camus