Bad laws Quote by Carrie Nation Download Open image “It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.” — Carrie Nation ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad laws Funny Ifs Inspirational Law Love
There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil! — Carrie Nation Copy Share Image
No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked,… — Carrie Nation Copy Share Image
[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God. — Carrie Nation Copy Share Image
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carrie Nation Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed. — Tom Driberg Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image