Quotes About Laws

Victims of the delusion that equality and liberty are the better assured by the multiplication of laws, nations daily consent to put up with trammels increasingly burdensome. They do not accept this legislation with impunity. Accustomed to put up with every yoke, they soon end by desiring servitude, and lose all spontaneousness and energy.

Men are ruled by ideas, sentiments, and customs—matters which are of the essence of ourselves. Institutions and laws are the outward manifestation of our character, the expression of its needs. Being its outcome, institutions and laws cannot change this character.

?nsan? yöneten, özümüzdeki unsurlard?r, yani fikirler, duygular ve adetler. Kurumlar ve kanunlarsa ruhumuzun harici kar??l???, ihtiyaçlar?n?n bir ifadesidir.

As the Talmud says, Customs are more powerful than laws.

Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.

Las leyes son tan malas, tienen tantos agujeros, que el espacio de arbitraje de la Suprema Corte se multiplica al infinito.

Las Leyes de Reforma de 1856 fueron el clímax jurídico del triunfo de aquella cúpula modernizante sobre la sociedad real. Pero la ofensiva ilustrada había cruzado todo el siglo XIX, aun antes de la Independencia, bajo el signo del pensamiento de Melchor de Jovellanos.

Crear un "país de leyes" —un país donde se cumplan las leyes— es el más viejo propósito de los gobiernos de México. Es también el fracaso político más repetido de nuestra historia.

Un gobierno dispuesto a aplicar estrictamente las leyes, tendría que perseguir a una cantidad imposible de mexicanos. Tendría casi que declararle la guerra a su sociedad.

Las leyes incumplibles, compendios éticos de sueños nacionales, tienen un efecto invisible profundamente corruptor sobre la cultura cívica

Crear un país de leyes significa arrancar esa costumbre de un sector todavía amplio de la sociedad mexicana.

Does the Convocation make the laws?" Erskyll asked. Hozhet was perplexed. "Make laws, Lord Proconsul? Oh, no. We have laws." There were planets, here and there through the Empire, where an attitude like that would have been distinctly beneficial; planets with elective parliaments, every member of which felt himself obligated to get as many laws enacted during his term of office as possible.

Physical laws provided a trivial explanation for their shrinking. On second thought the connection between shrinking and loss of meaning was not so obvious. Why should it be that as things become small they also become incomprehensible?

the laws of Newton, appropriate tools for a clockmaker deity who could create a world and set it running for eternity.

Those who made such models took for granted that, from present to future, the laws of motion provide a bridge of mathematical certainty. Understand the laws and you understand the universe. That was the philosophy behind modeling weather on a computer.

In physics there is slippage. Chance has a part to play. Accidents can happen. Uncertainty is a principle. The world is more complex than any model... The physical laws are a construct, a convenience. They are not coextensive with the universe.

I also am sure that there is no such thing as free thinking inasmuch as all thinking must be bound by its own laws.

My poor friends, you are free—free as air. You can cast off the name of slave and trample upon it. . . . Liberty is your birthright. . . . But you must try to deserve this priceless boon. Let the world see that you merit it, and are able to maintain it by your good works. Don't let your joy carry you into excesses. Learn the laws and obey them. . . . There, now, let me pass on; I have but little time to spare. I want to see the capital.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

American violence mirrors that of my home country. And the laws here, much like where I was born, seem to favor criminals and not victims. Criminals get released very quickly.

The laws of physics are totally different from human laws, because human laws are decisions," Ellie says. "They aren't facts.

While continuing to speak out and work against those laws that sanction homosexuality, we also shall continue to seek help and change for homosexuals themselves, whose sad and sick values belie the word 'gay' which they pathetically use to cover their unhappy lives.

Racism in the stadiums must be defeated, but to succeed, even before the laws of sport, those of the State will be needed, deterrents that help to curb these unhealthy habits.

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.