Bad laws Quote by Jane Aiken Hodge Download Open image “Bad laws make bad customs.” — Jane Aiken Hodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad laws Customs Law
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. — Carrie Nation Copy Share Image
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor 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