Laws Quotes

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We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national… — John Ashcroft
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. — Allen Tucker
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins… — Edmund Burke
No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in… — Swami Vivekananda
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science… — Charles Kingsley
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken… — Paul Elmer More
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or… — Florence Nightingale
It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws… — Lewis Terman
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson
May your dreams defy the laws of gravity. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws,… — Unknown Author
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty… — Lysander Spooner
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to… — Ron Paul
Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't… — Ernest Gaines
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful… — Marquis de Sade
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so… — Kevin Rudd
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course… — Frederick Soddy
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.… — Unknown Author
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but… — Lactantius
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. — Lydia M. Child
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. — Cal Thomas
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by… — Baruch Spinoza

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