Laws Quotes

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We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't… — Homer
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to… — Thucydides
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or… — Ronald Reagan
I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the… — John F. Kennedy
You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope. — Maeve Binchy
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase… — John von Neumann
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley
That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling,… — Walt Whitman
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the… — Olaf Stapledon
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws. — Robert A. Heinlein
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier
Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. — Manny Pacquiao
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of… — William Rehnquist
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling… — Walter Jon Williams
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those… — Mahatma Gandhi
The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity. — Nicolae Ceausescu
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament… — George Gillespie
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than… — Emile M. Cioran
We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the… — Paul Watson
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's… — Jefferson Davis
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics,… — Ernest Hemingway
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination… — Rand Paul

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