Laws Quotes

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I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them. — Edmund Burke
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. — Michael Polanyi
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which… — Johannes Peter Muller
The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. — Dixie Lee Ray
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. — Robert Henri
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in… — John Conyers
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious — Hugo Black
No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he… — Edward Coke
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at… — Margaret Thatcher
If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and… — Max Born
Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that… — Wolfgang Pauli
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and… — Paul Dirac
The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken. — Tom Robbins
If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any… — Dave Barry
Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers. — Diane Ravitch
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which… — Mark Shields
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little. — Nicholas D. Kristof
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of… — Stan Brakhage
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land,… — Alcee Hastings
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must… — Robert Kennedy
What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns? — Neal Boortz
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds… — Rutherford B. Hayes
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the… — Franz Rosenzweig
The laws of this world are for children. — Frank Wedekind

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