Quotes About Laws

In a body activity like language, there is a blind logic, laws of equilibrium that are observed by the community of speaking subjects without any of them being conscious of it.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

At every major step, physics has required, and frequently stimulated, the introduction of new mathematical tools and concepts. Our present understanding of the laws of physics, with their extreme precision and universality, is only possible in mathematical terms.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

The collective must respect the individual and the individual must respect the collective. It's a disaster if individuals have contempt for the collective (as in far right American anarcho-capitalist libertarianism), and it's a disaster if the collective has contempt for the individual (as in communism). Meritocracy is the system that reveres both the individual and the collective, bound together by rational laws, and dialectical improvement.

If you look closely at the price-gouging debate, you'll notice that the arguments for and against price-gouging laws revolve around three ideas: maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and 'tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

De pronto me di cuenta, incómodo, de que pensaba que la sociedad en la que vivía era algo así como un medio natural —digamos una sabana o una jungla— a cuyas leyes había tenido que adaptarme.

It's our patented Three Laws of Robotics. They're a fundamental part of every robot we manufacture, and we do not continue building or programming until it has become an integral part of them.

El crimen es precioso porque garantiza al gobierno la adhesión del ciudadano. ¿La patria? ¡Sálvese, general, yo sé lo que le digo; qué patria ni qué india envuelta! ¿Las leyes? ¡Buenas son tortas! ¡Sálvese, general, porque le espera la muerte!».

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating. For

La fe más prometedora para el futuro podría basarse en la comprensión de que el universo entero es un sistema relacionado por leyes comunes y que no tiene sentido imponer nuestros sueños y deseos sobre la naturaleza sin tenerla en cuenta.

Life is much richer and more complex than even the most perfect plans to make it better. It ultimately takes vengeance for attempts to impose abstract schemes, even with the best of intentions. Perestroika has made us understand this about our past, and the actual experience of recent years has taught us to reckon with the most general laws of civilization.

La vida dicta a los hombres leyes que no están escritas