L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.”
“Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.”
“Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.”
“Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.”
Source: The methodology of the social sciences
“Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.”
“Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.”
“Laws are inoperative in war”
“Laws are insufficient to endow a nation with righteousness.”
“Laws are Legitimate only when they are taken from Nature. Since human is a part of Nature, the regulations that impose restrictions on his behavior vis-à-vis other humans and Nature must be created by observing human nature and the laws of the universe.”
Source: To Be Tried As A Jew
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
“Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.”
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
“Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.”
“Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.”
“Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.”
“Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.”
“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.”
Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Laws are made not to be broken.
They are made to curb our savagery.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious”
“Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.”
“Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.”
Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio
“Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!”
“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Laws are not made for the good.”
“Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Laws are not science; they are normative ideology and are thus tightly tied to power. Biomedicine and public health, though also vulnerable to being deformed by ideology, serve different imperatives, ask different questions. They do not ask whether an event or a process violates an existing rule; they ask whether that event or process has ill effects on a patient or a population.”
Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.”
“Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.”
Source: Laws
“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”
“Laws are silent in time of war.”
“Laws are subordinate to custom.”
“Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.”
“Laws are the guide rails to create a balance.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Laws are the silent assessors of God.”
“Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.”
“Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.”
“Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.”
“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.”
Source: Rabbit, Run
“Laws become fragile under the influence of dictators.”
“Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.”
“Laws can discover sin, but not remove it”
Source: Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes
“Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.”
“Laws can't control the lawless.”
“Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.”
Source: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
“Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.”
Source: Hadrian's Memoirs
“Laws change. Conscience doesn't.”
“Laws continue to be enacted, and the regulatory environment has become more complex due to unacceptable conduct remediation. Consequently, entities continue to be compelled to demonstrate compliance with legal mandates through documented assurance assessments.”
Source: Assuring IT Legal Compliance
“Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.”
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist