Laws Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about laws.

Anacarsis

Anacarsis

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Many times laws are like spider webs: small insects are caught in them; the large ones break them.

Anonymous

Anonymous

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There are no laws, traditions, or rules that can be universally applied, including this one.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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Bad laws will always find, and contribute to creating, men worse than them, in charge of executing them.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The sovereignty of the law must be preferred to that of any citizen.

Jean Lucien Arréat

Jean Lucien Arréat

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Unable to change men, institutions are relentlessly changed.

Richard Bach

Richard Bach

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The only law is the one that leads to freedom, there is no other.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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The laws are like spiderwebs, through which the big flies pass freely and the small ones get entangled.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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If you ever discover any law, be prudent and do not try to apply it. You have discovered the law... that is enough. Because if this law is physical and you try to apply it to a machine, you will stumble upon brute matter; and if it is a social law, you will stumble upon the brutality of men.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The law is inexorable, like dogs: it only barks at those who are poorly dressed.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Legislators certainly need a school of ethics.

Émile Boutroux

Émile Boutroux

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The law is the bed through which the stream of facts flows.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort

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It is easier to legalize certain things than to legitimize them.