Laws Quotes - page 2

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. (Emil Cioran)
There are laws for peace as well as war. View quote
Livy
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. View quote
James Joseph Sylvester
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
For in politics, what can laws do without morals? View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. (Grover Cleveland)
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. View quote
Grover Cleveland
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. View quote
William Howard Taft
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life. View quote
Helen Keller
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. View quote
André Gide
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. View quote
Mark Twain
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. (Dan Brown)
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven. View quote
Jean Paul
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. View quote
Max Planck
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. View quote
Noam Chomsky