Quotes About Laws

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

Of the many ways to describe or articulate the Torah, two are pertinent in our text: one can either multiply laws so as to cover all possible situations, or one can reduce the law to its essence.

John does not adjudicate how to engage in politics. Instead, John instructs Christians how to discern the moral character of governments and politicians and policies and laws.

Everything is natural, though if we do not know, or if we misread nature's laws, we falsely call it otherwise. Consider: Fifty years ago a man beholding the radio would have called it supernatural, yet the laws of physics governing the device were known as well then as now. But their application had not yet been learned.

We might be able to guarantee that events along a closed timelike curve are consistent with the microscopic laws of physics, but in general they cannot be compatible with an uninterrupted increase of entropy along the curve.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.

How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!

Even I feel a drawing toward him—the paternal blood in me making its claim. How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature—the most of them, in fact!

We sent a sheik to arrest him if he had the authority, or to warn him, if he had not, that by the laws of Egypt the crime he was attempting to commit was punishable with imprisonment or the bastinado.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get Him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

The world is made wrong, kings should go to school to their own laws at times, and so learn mercy. -Edward Tudor

Well, the king was out of the hole; and on terms satisfactory to the Church and the rest of the aristocracy, no doubt. Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man in a State has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from Rediscovering Lost Values)

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.