Norm MacDonald Quotes

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

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• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• 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
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• We want laws to be applied predictably.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Laws
  • Applied

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

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

  

  Carl Levin
  • Child
  • Laws
  • Guns

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

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• I don't order laws, I propose them.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Order
  • Laws
  • Them

• In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • House
  • Laws
  • Obey

• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Consideration
  • Final

• Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Values
  • Laws

• As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • America
  • Support
  • Present

• We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Important
  • Administration
  • Afghanistan

• It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Society
  • Law
  • Sex

• Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Girl
  • Situation
  • Administration

• It's time to have a new administration so that we have a fresh energy policy and we don't have this problem.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Problem

• Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Government
  • Laws

• Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Determination
  • Laws

• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  

  F. William Engdahl
  • Democracy
  • Administration
  • Afghanistan

• Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Past
  • Looks
  • Regret

• I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Leader
  • Conscience
  • Decide

• Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Laws
  • Administration
  • Mortals