Laws Quotes · Page 31

“Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.”

— Anonymous

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

— Yusuf Hamied

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.

— Sonny Perdue

Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.

— Michelle Alexander

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

— Lela Loren

“T he people and all their leaders ought to know t h at historical law which lays down t h at certain…

— Anonymous

“in the course of social evolution, usage precedes law; and that when usage has been well established it becomes law by receiving…

— Herbert Spencer

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point…

— Ralph Merkle

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If…

— Abraham Lincoln

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your…

— Daryl Davis

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against…

— Orson Scott Card

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners…

— Loretta Napoleoni

We want to make legislation; we want to put laws on women's uteruses and whether or not they can protect themselves from…

— Madeline Brewer

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as…

— Steven Hatfill

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works…

— Ed Asner

I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not…

— Julian Baggini

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

— Marianne Thieme

“The law is clear, but the situation has to do with the enforcement. Laws are used when the good people want something…

— David J. Kirk

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.

— Adam Cohen

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

— Robert Reich

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

— Raj Thackeray

“The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are”

— Anonymous

“If their rules made sense and sense ruled— If their laws weren’t so brok- en I wouldn’t break ‘em.”

— Roy Duffield

We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

— Richard Cordray

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

— Richard P. Feynman

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

— Murray Kempton

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

— Marco Rubio

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion -…

— Ricky Martin

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we…

— William J. Brennan

“Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

— Abraham Lincoln

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

— Aristotle

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed…

— Arthur Eddington

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

— Maximilien Robespierre