Laws Quotes - page 5

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. (Otto von Bismarck)
There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws. View quote
Andrew Johnson
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. View quote
Euclid
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. View quote
Michael Faraday
... very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. View quote
Albert Einstein
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco. View quote
Albert Einstein
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. View quote
John Mortimer
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.... View quote
John Cassian
Is it fitting that our intelligence exert itself and labor in speculations which are not binding upon us, in fruitless argumentation, in laws which have no application to us, while we leave to habit and abandon to mechanical observance our great debt to our Creator? (Moshe Chaim Luzzatto)
The laws of this world are for children. View quote
Frank Wedekind
I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play. View quote
Juan Carlos Onetti
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. View quote
John Lescroart
It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits. View quote
Alfred Binet
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
During war, the laws are silent. View quote
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. View quote
Mark Shields
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. (Olympia Brown)
Women becoming, consequently weaker, in mind and body, than they ought to be...have not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection...either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold. View quote
John Paul Stevens