Rules And Laws Quotes

35 quotes from 33 authors

Across centuries and cultures, people wrestle with statutes, from obeying to breaking them. This set of 35 quotes captures the tension between order and freedom, humor and critique, and the pleasure some find in defying rules, offering voices from philosophers to activists that show how laws shape life and moral choices.

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When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the…

Anonymous

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

Michelle Alexander

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How can I Live Like Theres No Tomorrow if there are freaking rules and laws?..

Anonymous

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Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality…

Derek Luke

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Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

Ruhollah Khomeini

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I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Kiran Desai

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“We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.”

Amit Kalantri

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“We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.”

Bryant McGill

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There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure…

Thomas S. Monson

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What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you…

Jeff Buckley

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The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made…

Asma Jahangir

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It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by…

George Pelecanos

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Trump's behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings.…

George T. Conway III

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“It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you…

Tabitha McGowan

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Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going…

Edward Weston

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“You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps,…

Michael Robotham

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The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate…

Max Horkheimer

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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr.…

Iain Banks

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It's a free country, man. Freedom of speech is the first amendment. But when you are talking business and being a role…

Mike Perry

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“As I lay in my room, I looked back on the day with all of its colors and surprises- a day when…

Andrea Busfield

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We as a society have created rules and laws and systems that not only are transphobic and homophobic but they’re also racist…

Jeff Varner

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There's a lot of rules and laws that I follow that our country has set up in the universities. So I definitely…

Mike MacIntyre

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“There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure…

Thomas S. Monson

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It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies…

Derrick Jensen

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“Freedom and respect for the individual are rooted in the Old Testament, which convinced man that he makes his own history, that…

Joost A. M. Meerloo

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“The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e., only from outside the…

Abraham H. Maslow

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“The air was icy, Mari came back in, grabbed a coat and went out again. Outside, far from the eyes of everyone,…

Paulo Coelho

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“Freedom and respect for the individual are rooted in the Old Testament, which convinced man that he makes his own history, that…

Joost A.M. Meerloo

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“We might live in a civilized world, but rules “We might live in a civilized world, but rules and laws didn’t apply…

Pepper Winters

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I don't think it's right that there's one set of rules for one individual and another set of rules and laws for…

Rob Halford

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I don't want to talk politics, but what I do say is I believe in rules and laws, and if you come…

Mo Farah

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“I see no reason why a woman should feel herself deserving of a separation from God because of a decision she has…

Willie Parker

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“Society is a machine of machines, a system that runs on precondition, customs, rules and laws that are either expressed openly or…

Dew Platt

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“No, Hezekiah...no.. I don't deserve forgiveness. He lifted his head to look at her. None of us do. But God doesn't treat…

Lynn Austin

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In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough…

Barack Obama

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