Quotes About Too Many Laws

#1. Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up ...

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#3. The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

John Nance Garner

#4. They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds.

Robert M. Pirsig

#5. It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

Pat Robertson

#7. You have moved into the laws and regulations of the society and those laws and regulations cannot protect you, they can only give you the feeling of protection. But nothing protects. The laws cannot make you secure, they can only give you a feeling of security that is false.

Osho

#8. These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Steve Finley

#9. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. 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.

Tennessee Williams

#11. God instituted laws whereby [the Spirits that He would send into the world] could have a privilege to advance life himself.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#12. Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

Alan Sugar

#13. Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

Alan Kay

#16. An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

Thomas Sowell

#17. If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Noam Chomsky

#18. If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation.

Steven Magee

#20. We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

Steven Pinker

#21. Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.

Michael Bloomberg

#22. If a man can't remember the laws," Ragnar said, "then he's got too many of them.

Bernard Cornwell

#23. Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

Ronald Reagan

#24. Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion.

Kirsten Beyer

#25. There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Ted Cruz

#26. Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

Marco Rubio

#27. It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

Trent Lott

#28. Republicans in Congress are getting concerned that President Obama will try to use the final year of his term to push through too many controversial laws. Obama would've responded but he was busy drafting his new 'mandatory Mexican gay weed' bill.

Jimmy Fallon

#29. Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.
Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe

Jacob Nordby

#30. In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

Rick Perry

#31. The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

Theodor Schwenk

#32. The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be

Stephen R. Covey

#33. Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#34. I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

Percy Barnevik

#35. When the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Montesquieu

#36. Long life for a man is impossible without keeping the laws of the flesh.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#39. God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

Isaac Newton

#40. In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Mark Allen Smith

#41. I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

Ernest Hemingway,

#42. France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Joachim Du Bellay

#43. As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since musical ideas have been presented ... So we shall try to put our finger on the laws that must be at the bottom of this ...

Anton Webern

#44. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Criss Jami

#45. God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

Adam Hamilton

#46. Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.

Charles Darwin

#47. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Audrey Hepburn

#48. The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Greg Iles

#49. Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

William E. Gladstone

#50. In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty.

Trevanian

#51. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

Mahatma Gandhi

#52. According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

Andre Sainte-Lague

#53. In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Bill Dedman

#54. Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Wendy Kopp

#55. Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#56. No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.

Trevor Paglen