Quotes on Laws

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Author: Vittorio Alfieri

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Author: A. Ammons

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Author: A. Ammons

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Author: Anacharsis

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Author: Aristotle

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

Author: Michael Badnarik

We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

Author: Christian Bale

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

Author: Roy Barnes

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Author: Otto Bismarck

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

Author: Hugo Black

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Author: Edmund Burke

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

Author: Jack Cade

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

Author: Dan Castellaneta

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Author: Beverly Cleary

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Author: Rene Descartes

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Author: John Dryden

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Author: Will Durant

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Author: Arthur Eddington

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Author: Albert Einstein

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.

Author: Albert Einstein

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Author: Steve Finley

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

Author: Elton Gallegly

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

Author: Elton Gallegly

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

Author: John Gardner

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Author: Garet Garrett

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Author: Edward Gibbon

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Author: William Gladstone

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

Author: Anne Hutchinson

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Author: Bob Inglis

Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

Author: Steve Israel

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

Author: Andrew Johnson

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

Author: Doris Lessing

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

Author: Carl Levin

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

Author: Blanche Lincoln

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Author: Louis Louis XIV

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Author: Julian McMahon

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.

Author: Michel Montaigne

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

Author: Barbara Olson

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Author: Ouida

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Author: Isabel Paterson

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

Author: Henri Poincare

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Author: Michael Polanyi

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

Author: Dixie Ray

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Author: Terry Riley

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

Author: Tim Robbins

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

Author: Pat Robertson

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Author: George Savile

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.

Author: George Savile

After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

Author: Otto Schily

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Author: William Shenstone

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

Author: James Smithson

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

Author: James Stockdale

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

Author: Thomas Sydenham

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Author: Publilius Syrus

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Author: Tacitus

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Author: Tacitus

I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.

Author: Lee Terry

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Author: Lao Tzu

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Author: Jules Verne

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Author: Voltaire

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

Author: Lech Walesa

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

Author: Alfred Wallace

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Author: George Washington

What is crucial is there be laws.

Author: Andre Weil

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Author: Robert Welch

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Author: Orson Welles

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

Author: Allen West

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Author: Mae West