Laws Quotes · Page 35

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

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

— Richard Cordray

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

Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by…

— Leon Russell

Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of…

— Jan C. Ting

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever…

— John Marshall

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly…

— Elizabeth Warren

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

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

— Roy Duffield

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

— Charles Duhigg

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.”

— Roxanne Snopek

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

— James Stockdale

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

— George T. Conway III

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

— Solon

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

— Julian McMahon

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

— Anonymous

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by…

— Demonax The Cynic

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

— John Howard Griffin

There is no purging. We are following federal laws to keep our voting rolls clean. That word, purging, is outrageous.

— Brian Kemp

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

— Thomas Sowell

It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away…

— Ann Widdecombe

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the…

— Anonymous

In some cases, companies may think it's worth the cost of doing business to risk violating privacy laws.

— Lina Khan

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

— Cullen Hightower

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

— Anonymous

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

— Anonymous

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those…

— Gary Sheffield

When you know the law, you're above the law. When you break the law, you're under the law.

— KRS-One

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

— Diane Abbott

When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.

— Chris Murphy