Laws Quotes
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.
Paul Nehlen
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If there was such a thing, in the beginning, God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
Albert Einstein
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.
Benvenuto Cellini
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Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceeds in accordance with its laws.
Alfred Tarski
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The supreme being of the Deists could be apprehended by practical investigation and the use of reason to understand natural laws. Religious faith was not needed, nor were miracles, divine inspiration, or personal revelations of God’s spirit.
Andrew Himes
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I generally favor permissive abortion laws.
Benjamin Wittes
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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
Marian Wright Edelman
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How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.
Gerald Heaney
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It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
Harry S Truman
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The laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.
Elena Ferrante
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
Alexander Bickel
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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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There are already laws prohibiting the promotion of hatred and we are now considering new laws to establish limits on the use of the Internet and other forms of communication in a way that might be harmful to us all.
Allan Rock
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The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
Claudius Claudianus
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The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
Eric Holder
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Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
John Ruskin
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Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Ammon Hennacy
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The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
John Ruskin
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Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.
Benvenuto Cellini
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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.
Arthur Conan Doyle