Laws Quotes

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

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 the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

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 govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

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 which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.