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.

Pythagoras of Samos

Pythagoras of Samos

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Oh legislator! Don't give me laws for the people, but people for the laws.

The legislator should not aim for the happiness of a certain order of citizens to the exclusion of others, but the happiness of all.

Fernando de Rojas

Fernando de Rojas

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Unjust is the law that is not equal for all.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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In all things there seems to exist as a law a circle.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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Everywhere the strongest have made the laws and oppressed the weak.

Otto von Bismark

Otto von Bismark

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With laws, it's like with sausages, it's better not to see how they are made.