Laws Quotes - page 4

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. (L. Neil Smith)
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Abigail Adams
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush
I know not whether Laws be right Or whether Laws be wrong All that we know who live in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai Stevenson II
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine.
George Herbert
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
Bertrand Russell
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.
A. E. Housman
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. (Doris Lessing)
Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Aeschylus
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
William Golding
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Swami Sivananda
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
Confucius
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.
Jack Kevorkian
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
After all, our laws only reflect the definitions of the majority. When those ideas change, the laws change.
George Alec Effinger
I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought.
Erich Fromm
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. (Eric Hoffer)
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Tryon Edwards
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Henri Poincaré