Laws Quotes

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. (Aristophanes)
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. View quote
Tacitus
Good people do not need law to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. View quote
Plato
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls. View quote
Heraclitus
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. View quote
Laozi
Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged. View quote
Aristotle
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. View quote
Edmund Burke
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. View quote
Frank Zappa
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! View quote
Alexander Pope
Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. (Jonathan Swift)
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. View quote
Edmund Burke
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. View quote
Henry Miller
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. View quote
Kiran Desai
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. View quote
Pythagoras
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. View quote
George Boole
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. (Thomas Malthus)
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. View quote
Montesquieu
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. View quote
Edmund Burke
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. View quote
Ambrose Bierce