Laws Quotes

I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws o...

I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws or crafts its advanced treatises if I can write its economics textbooks --Paul A. Samuelson
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole sy...

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ...Charles Darwin
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‘Good people do not need laws to tell ...

‘Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.’ - Plato
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‘Laws are spider webs through whi...

‘Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.’ -Honore de Balzac
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"We may brave human law...

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones." - Jules Verne
📅︎ Feb 01
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"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time def...

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." ~ H.L. Mencken
📅︎ Jan 19
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"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like the...

"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them." -- Anacharsis
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"Never accept the free lunch. E...

"Never accept the free lunch. Everything that has worth is worth paying for". The 48 Laws Of Power.
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"When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't p...

"When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.” -Ayn Rand
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“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reali...

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ~ Albert Einstein
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"Laws are like sausages. I...

"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made." — Otto von Bismarck
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"When men are pure, laws are u...

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." — Benjamin Disraeli
📅︎ Dec 08
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The more numerous the laws, the more...

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. ...Tacitus ..Born: 56 Died: 117 Occupation: Historian
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"We place our hopes to much on laws and courts and constitutions and tha...

"We place our hopes to much on laws and courts and constitutions and that these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." -Learned Hand
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“The universal laws will al...

“The universal laws will always work in my favor, because I feel great, think it and it”
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“GIVE me control of a nation’s mo...

“GIVE me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” -Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
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"Summum ius summa iniuria ...

"Summum ius summa iniuria (The more laws, the less justice)." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
📅︎ Oct 27
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Same community that tal...

Same community that talks about freedom of expression, makes laws. - Unknown
📅︎ Dec 15
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“Laws are spider webs through whi...

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.” ― Honore de Balzac
📅︎ Dec 06
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"[our laws] are not to be compared with those [of] Nazis [who are] more liberal. [For the] ...

"[our laws] are not to be compared with those [of] Nazis [who are] more liberal. [For the] Nazis, persons having 1/4 Jewish blood could qualify as Aryans, whereas many of the [Southern] American laws specify that persons having 1/16th Negro blood are Negroes." -- Stetson Kennedy.
📅︎ Dec 13
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"Every actual state is corrup...

"Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
📅︎ Oct 22
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“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrou...

“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.” ― Bill Bryson
📅︎ Sep 17
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"Laws catch flies ...

"Laws catch flies but let hornets go free." --Russian proverb
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"When men are pure, laws are u...

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." — Benjamin Disraeli
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“I value true freedom within life. There is no freedom in human life. Shackled by laws, rules, an...

“I value true freedom within life. There is no freedom in human life. Shackled by laws, rules, and society. There is no freedom to be found in life as a human. Which brings me to writing, writing and literature, that is where true freedom can be found. Within books, there is no rule.” - Me, Andy. H
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"Nothing travels faster than the speed of li...

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." — Douglas Adams
📅︎ Sep 20
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Our destiny rules over us, even when we ar...

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today. Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The United States is a nati...

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." — Frank Zappa
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"The laws of physics could be like an onion, wi...

"The laws of physics could be like an onion, with new laws becoming operational as we probe new scales. We simply don't know!" - Richard P. Feynman
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