Funny Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws:…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate,…

— William Blackstone

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

— Eugene Wigner

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What is crucial is there be laws.

— Andre Weil

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not…

— Thomas Jefferson

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle…

— Joseph McCabe

In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.

— Anonymous

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

— Anonymous

Laws are subordinate to custom.

— Plautus

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

— Max Weber

The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious:…

— Auguste Comte