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Laws Quotes

On order, morality, and the limits of written rules.

One line compares the structure of morality to the structure of music, treating both as governed by underlying laws rather than personal taste. Another suggests that an excess of laws says as much about the people who wrote them as about anyone they were meant to restrain. Related reading continues on Bad quotes.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Quotes by Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

Quotes by Abu Bakar Bashir

Against Quotes

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Quotes by A. R. Ammons

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

Quotes by Zoltan Kodaly

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

Quotes by Warren De la Rue

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Bad Quotes

So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

Quotes by Vicente Fox

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Quotes by Trofim Lysenko

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

Quotes by Tom McClintock

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

Been Quotes

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Quotes by Terry Riley

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Quotes by Tacitus

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Quotes by Tacitus

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Quotes by Tacitus

If somebody flouts laws unconstitutionally, they will not get support from the BJP.

Quotes by Smriti Irani

Broken Quotes

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

Quotes by Sheila Jackson Lee

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the range of these laws quotes?
It spans philosophy ("the laws of morals and the laws of music are the same"), nature ("nature's laws must be obeyed"), a sharp aphorism about bad men making bad laws, and a specific policy debate over state versus federal authority on immigration and border security.
Does the immigration quote take a side?
It states a specific argument — that Arizona created local laws because it saw the federal government "isn't assuming its responsibilities" on migration and border security — presented here as one viewpoint in that debate, not an endorsed position.
What's the aphorism about bad laws?
"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws" argues the relationship runs both ways — bad laws can corrupt behavior just as corrupt behavior produces more bad laws.
Why do people search laws quotes?
Usually for a sharp, quotable line about justice, order, or governance rather than a specific legal citation — this collection favors that aphoristic style.
Where can I read related quotes?
For the institutions these laws come from, see Government quotes, or for the formal side of law, Legal quotes.

Natural law gets treated as something that cannot be ignored without consequence, decline following close behind. For nearby themes, try Against quotes or Broken quotes.