Laws Quotes · Page 34

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

It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to…

— Tom Fitton

When a federal court issues an order against enforcement of a government policy, the ruling traditionally applies only to the plaintiff in…

— William Barr

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to…

— Jeff Cooper

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as…

— Maimonides

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be…

— Olaf Stapledon

Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in…

— Mikko Hypponen

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a…

— John Gilmore

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail…

— John Amery

I am actually quite relieved that I didn't have to stand beside Imran Khan while he touted blasphemy laws, and his party…

— Reham Khan

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea…

— Bill Keller

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by…

— Paul Elmer More

When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the…

— John Battelle

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

— Aristotle

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

— Josephine Herbst

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

— Terri Sewell

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

— Iain Banks

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 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

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

— Henry Fox

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

— Stokely Carmichael

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

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

— Nick Harkaway

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

— Ken Starr

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

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of…

— Edward Coke

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Lina Khan

I would make a tough law that would force all supermarkets to source at least 15 per cent of their fresh produce…

— Gregg Wallace