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Law Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of…
- ...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
- Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
- My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
- Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
- The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings…
- The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical…
- Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
- There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit…
- Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
- Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as…
- It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
More Law Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson