L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.”
“laws criminalizing gender violence are a cruel hoax if they turn a blind eye to the structural sexism and racism of criminal justice systems, leaving intact police brutality, mass incarceration, deportation threats, military interventions, and harassment and abuse in the workplace.”
Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
“Laws die, books never.”
“Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.”
“Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'”
“Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.”
“Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.”
“Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.”
“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”
Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife
“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.”
“Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
“Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.”
Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
“Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
“Laws in industrialized nations tend to protect profits over life. Just a glimpse of anymals in our food industries (please see the appendix) can help readers to understand why religious teachings focus on respect for and protection of anymals. A hen is fated, from the day she hatches, to a pubescent death on a dismemberment belt. Calves are purposefully kept anemic and perpetually restrained to create veal. Turkeys are genetically manipulated to be too large to walk or breed naturally. Female anymals are perpetually impregnated, and their young taken from them, until they are “spent” and trucked to slaughter. Routine treatment of anymals through industrialized agriculture is, quite frankly, a moral and religious outrage.”
Source: Animals and World Religions
“Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”
“Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.”
Source: Half the Sky
“Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.”
“Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“Laws never protect anyone, despite claiming to be all about protecting the public. Each legal restriction only strengthens the power of mafia and crime organising who step in to help people do what the law says they can't do, in every country.”
“Laws of attraction could build a strong relationship among married couples or friends.”
“Laws of Karma dictate one person to give and other person to receive. The receiver is in no way inferior to the giver.”
“Laws of Karma work in unexpected ways. Help someone who doesn’t deserve it. Sometimes a poisonous well may have the pearl you are looking for.”
“Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But at the same time it is this arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous units which give rise to a large proportion of human error.”
Source: War and Peace
“Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.”
“Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.”
“Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.”
“Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost”
Source: Beautiful Redemption
“Laws of silence don't work....
When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.”
Source: Volt
“Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.”
Source: Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“Laws ostensibly directed at undocumented immigrants inevitably affect the treatment of lawfully present immigrants and citizens who share the ethnic, racial, or national origin characteristics of undocumented immigrants.”
Source: The New Immigration Federalism
“Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.”
Source: Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First
“Laws, policies and amendments are not going to ensure justice in the human society, unless the humans - each human - all humans, uphold justice with utmost courage, care and conscience in their daily walks of life.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.”
“Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.”
Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction
“Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.”
“Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.”
“Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.”
“Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.”
“Laws shouldn't just be about the quality. They should also be about equity and if they're placing a social burden on marginalized groups, then those laws need to be reconsidered.”
“Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.”
“Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”