Legislator Quotes

• The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Things
  • Citizens

• The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Government
  • Harm

• I think that we're just fortunate that you have an experienced legislator: 26 years of fighting for our issues in line. I mean, there's nobody, there's no man, nor woman that is being mentioned that has the legislative experience that she has and the passion in her heart for advancing the cause of women.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Heart
  • She

• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Business
  • Property

• Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Country
  • Together
  • Generation

• For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Law
  • Judgements
  • Legislator

• Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought, whence their laws are derived. What wonder, after that, is if criticism had resulted in the virtual disappearance of all metaphysics? As soon as the universe is reduced to the laws of mind, man, now become creator, has no longer any means of rising above himself. Legislator of a world to which his own mind has given birth, he is henceforth the prisoner of his own work, and he will never escape from it anymore. If my thought is the condition of being, never by thought shall I be able to transcend the limits of my being and my capacity for the infinite will never be satisfied.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Criticism
  • Laws
  • Divine

• I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

  

  Anjem Choudary
  • God
  • Parliament
  • Legislator