Quotes About Laws

God is the set of all the laws of nature.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

There are superior, spiritual laws inherent in human nature

To suffer destructive consequences is to obey laws in human nature

Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.

Peace will be restored by enforcing the rules for millions for overstay their visas. Our laws will finally receive the respect that they deserve.

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.