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Tag Name "Laws" (2224)

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Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost
Kami Garcia
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
Clarence Darrow
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Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
Ardel Wray
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
Edmund Spenser
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Algernon Sidney
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Laws can't control the lawless.
Wayne LaPierre
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato
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Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.
Amity Shlaes
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
Philip Sidney
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Laws are inoperative in war
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
Baruch Spinoza
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
Baruch Spinoza
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it but they cannot originate it.
Harriet Martineau
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Laws shouldn't just be about the quality. They should also be about equity and if they're placing a social burden on marginalized groups, then those laws need to be reconsidered.
Simon Tam
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Baron de Montesquieu
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
Baron de Montesquieu
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.
Hillary Clinton
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Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.
Hillary Clinton
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Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
Nicholas D. Kristof
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
Max Weber
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
Hugo Black
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Laws do not stop crime they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.
Jacque Fresco
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