Laws Quotes - page 3

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. (Milan Kundera)
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. View quote
Albert Einstein
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. View quote
Adam Smith
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. View quote
John Coleman
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. View quote
Joachim du Bellay
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. View quote
Charles Darwin
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. View quote
Horace Mann
A government of laws, and not of men. View quote
John Adams
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (Thomas Jefferson)
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. View quote
James Madison
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. View quote
Kofi Annan
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. View quote
Freda Adler
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
To execute laws is a royal office to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. View quote
Edmund Burke
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. (Madeleine Albright)
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature. View quote
John von Neumann
I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. View quote
Stephen Hawking
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. View quote
Stephen Hawking