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Quotes By subject - Starting with L - Laws
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There are 43 quotes for the subject Laws
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: The Gorky Incident
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Author: Plato
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Law never made men a whit more just.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Author: Aristotle
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HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Work: Devil's Dictionary
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Author: Albert Einstein
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Author: Mark Twain
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
Author: Albert Einstein
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Author: Winston Churchill
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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