Quotes About Laws

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

The power granted in the Constitution is thus expressed: "The Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." 169 It was to the Congress, not the Executive, to whom the power was delegated, and thus early was commenced a long series of usurpations of powers inconsistent with the purposes for which the Union was formed, and destructive of the fraternity it was designed to perpetuate.

The very first enactment, made on the 9th of February, 1861—the day after the adoption of the Provisional Constitution—was this: "That all the laws of the United States of America in force and in use in the Confederate States of America on the first day of November last, and not inconsistent with the Constitution of the Confederate States, be and the same are hereby continued in force until altered or repealed by the Congress

Es el evangelio, no la ley, lo que hace nacer a los pecadores en el reino. Los no regenerados siempre estarán en guerra con Dios, sin importar cuántas leyes, restricciones y castigos justos se les impongan. No puede haber paz con los malvados (Isa. 48:22).

Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.

I tried to gauge the cop's reaction. I couldn't see a thing. His dark eyes could have been laughing at me, or considering how I would look when I got out of prison just in time to join the AARP. "Interesting," he said. "You've broken a lot of laws tonight." Definitely laughing at me.

L'hérédité a ses lois, comme la pesanteur.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

Religion robs the soul of its independence; patriotism is the stupid worship of the world for which the well-being and the peace of the inhabitants were sacrificed by those who profit by it, while the laws of the land, in restraining natural desires, were waging war on the manifest spirit of the law of our beings. Compared with this, he concluded, thieving is an honorable pursuit.[5]

El anarquismo [...] defiende la acción directa, el rechazo y la resistencia frente a las leyes y las restricciones económicas, sociales y morales. Aunque el rechazo y la resistencia sean ilegales. En ello descansa la salvación del ser humano. Todo lo ilegal necesita de la integridad, de la independencia y el coraje.

Remember that the divine order is intelligent and fundamentally good. Life is not a series of random, meaningless episodes, but an ordered, elegant whole that follows ultimately comprehensible laws.

When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them. —Plato

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.

Good laws have their origins in bad morals.

Toplum yasalari yercekimi yasalarina benzemez, insan genellikle asagi dogru degil, yukari dogru duser. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta

new laws regulating the now-legal liquor industry, they helped ensure that bourbon (and other whiskey) would, as of July 1, 1936, have to be stored in charred new oak containers in order to claim the name.

loopholes in some United States liquor laws allow it to be served in restaurants with only a beer and wine license. This has led to shochu's use as a mixer in Asian-inspired cocktails—think lemongrass martinis—

Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues, et de voler du pain.

No," answered the Lord. "The remedy would be worse than the disease. It would be the ruin of the priesthood if essence prevailed over form in the laws of salvation." "Alas! Lord," sighed the humble Probus. "Be persuaded by my humble experience; as long as you reduce your sacraments to formulas your justice will meet with terrible obstacles.

But does the large presence of guns in America and their relative paucity in Europe render the former more democratic than the latter? Does the fact that some American states, such as New York and Massachusetts, have much tougher gun laws than France make them more complete democratic polities?