Laws Quotes

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

~ Milan Kundera

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

~ Barry Commoner

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ René Descartes

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

~ Gabrielle Giffords

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

~ John Quincy Adams

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

~ Louis Macneice

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

~ Pythagoras

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.

~ James Madison

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

~ Ma Jun

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

~ Brian Greene

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

~ Jared Diamond

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

~ Baldwin Spencer

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

~ George Washington

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

~ Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

~ Edmund Burke

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

~ Heather Brooke

Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall.

~ Pam Bondi

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

~ Rosie O'donnell

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

~ Samora Machel

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

~ Kenneth Clarke

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

~ Jeffrey Chiesa

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

~ Max Planck

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

~ Herman Melville