Laws Quotes · Page 38

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

— Edward Snowden

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel…

— Richard Dawkins

I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.

— Raul Labrador

“Although a legal system is rooted in the values of its society, it also has an independent dynamic, with principles, language, and…

— Joel P. Trachtman

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

— Sammy Sosa

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose…

— Thomas Hobbes

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

— Julius Caesar

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary…

— Julius Wellhausen

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their…

— Jandy Nelson

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an…

— Xenophon

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

— Olaf Stapledon

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed,…

— Peter Kropotkin

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

“Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." "Yeah, well, just because the law says it, it doesn't make…

— Neal Shusterman

The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright…

— Hilary Rosen

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

— Elizabeth Warren

Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation's gun laws.

— Lucy McBath

“You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

— John Updike

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

— Gloria Steinem

I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or…

— Nelsan Ellis

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by…

— William Blackstone

While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination…

— Dominic Raab

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and…

— Toby Keith

Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.

— Tom Noddy

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

— George Boole

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

— Millard Fillmore

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.

— Samael Aun Weor

The benefits of shooting in Indonesia, we are very independent from union laws.

— Gareth Evans

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

— Vernon Howard

Virginia's laws reinforce parents' fundamental rights to make decisions with regards to their child's upbringing and care.

— Glenn Youngkin

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

— Cynthia Payne

Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them

— Fred Rodell

It may not come immediately, nor from the obvious source but the law applies unfailingly, through some invisible force.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“I'm trying to help you." "I don't know what you're doing, but I'm sure there are laws about it!”

— Anonymous

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

— Murray Gell-Mann

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

— Sally Yates

If the federal government will not enforce the immigration laws, our state and local law enforcement should be empowered to do so.

— Tommy Tuberville