Laws Quotes

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

The laws of this world are for children.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.