All Quotes

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
‐‐ Christine Baranski

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
‐‐ Orson Scott Card

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
‐‐ Algernon Sidney

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
‐‐ Harriet Martineau

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
‐‐ Mikko Hypponen

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
‐‐ George Savile

Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
‐‐ Max Weber

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
‐‐ Hugo Black

Laws are never as effective as habits.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Laws are silent in time of war.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Laws are subordinate to custom.
‐‐ Plautus

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
‐‐ Louis XIV

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

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
‐‐ Levi Woodbury

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
‐‐ George Washington

Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

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.
‐‐ Larry Craig

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.
‐‐ Shereen El Feki

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.
‐‐ Charles W. Pickering

Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
‐‐ Conrad Burns

Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
‐‐ Benjamin N. Cardozo

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
‐‐ Don Henley

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
‐‐ Adam D'Angelo

Lawyers are for only what is right.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
‐‐ John Naisbitt

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
‐‐ David Mellor

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
‐‐ Jane Bryant Quinn

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.
‐‐ Tom Holt

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
‐‐ Aaron Allston

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
‐‐ Jeremy Bentham