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Quotes About Laws

I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.
~ Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
~ George Washington
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
~ Terence McKenna
Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
~ Sherwood Boehlert
Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.
~ Sheryl WuDunn
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.
~ Simon Blackburn
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
~ Simone Weil
Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
~ Simonides
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.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
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. (c. 1625)
~ Sir Francis Bacon
The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.
~ Bryan Fuller
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
~ Carl Clinton Van Doren
Love knoweth no laws.
~ John Lyly
Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love
~ Plato
Born of the Great War, this "trench broom" meant to help American doughboys sweep their way across Europe. But the conflict ended too soon for the Thompson to take part, and many of the fifteen thousand guns in circulation by 1929 ended up in private hands. Because the weapon was so new, few laws governed its sale. Legally purchasing a tommy gun in Chicago, in those days, was easier than acquiring a handgun.
~ Max Allan Collins
Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Britain has become a decadent society, weakened by alarming tendencies towards social and cultural suicide. Turning upon itself, it has progressively attacked or undermined the values, laws and traditions that make it a nation, creating a space that in turn has been exploited by radical Islamism.
~ Melanie Phillips
This is a new country, as you say. Why shouldn't it have new laws, new customs? And why should not those customs extend to the home itself. To—to love!
~ Melissa de la Cruz
They focused on reparation to the victim rather than punishment or fines levied on the perpetrator, and common consent of the people was necessary for new laws and elections (or rejections) of leaders.
~ Ben Carson
Laws and regulations should be designed to address normal situations, while providing special mechanisms for the creation of exceptions in abnormal situations.
~ Ben Carson