Quotes About Laws

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey

Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and opposition which they find in their hearts

There is no rules on how to live life. There is only laws you must obey by. You live life, learn from your mistakes and move on. Never forgetting what has been done but always remembering what is done.

For since missing a woman is no more than reviving a love that remains subject to the same laws as all love, the force of my regret was increased by the same causes which, while Albertine was alive, would have augmented my love for her and which had always given pride of place to jealousy and pain.

Now the memories of love are no exception to the general laws of memory, which in turn are governed by the still more general laws of Habit.

It is true that the two men were not acquainted and had little or nothing in common, but psychological laws, like physical laws, have a more or less general relevance. And if the appropriate conditions are the same, the same expression lights up the eyes of different human animals, just as the same morning sky lights up places that are remote from one another and have no connection.

Although it is rightly said that there can be no progress, no discovery in art, but only in the sciences, and that each artist starting afresh on an individual effort cannot be either helped or hindered therein by the efforts of any other, it must none the less be acknowledged that, in so far as art brings to light certain laws, once an industry has popularized them, the art that was first in the field loses retrospectively a little of its originality.

One can't build a skyscraper out of ideas, and one can't build models without concepts and laws.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.