Allen Tucker Quotes

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

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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

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

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

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

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Books
  • Laws
  • Behavior

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

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • House
  • Laws
  • Obey

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

  

  Tacitus
  • More
  • Laws
  • Corrupt

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• 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

• 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

• The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Children
  • Poverty
  • Manufacture

• Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Religion
  • Laws
  • Reverence

• Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

  

  Aristotle
  • Experience
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

  

  Aristotle
  • Lives
  • Laws
  • State

• If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Change
  • Learn
  • Laws

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Possible
  • Laws
  • Physics

• In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • Laws

• By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Jobs
  • Laws
  • Mexico

• I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lucky

• What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Community
  • Courage

• We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

  

  Allen Tucker
  • Laws
  • Punish
  • Manufacture