Top 44 Legislate Quotes

You can’t legislate morality.

I’m a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn’t legislate this matter.

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

It’s hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can’t do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly.

You can’t legislate against stupidity.

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives – not for ideology.

If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the ‘pen and phone.’

It’s hard because you can’t legislate creative diversity. I think it’s more that the gaming community’s more diverse, and they’re going to ask for more diverse experiences. They’re going to demand them.

You can’t actually legislate what goes on in people’s minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.

You can’t legislate sobriety.

I am a traditionalist, and I’m an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women’s health and contraception choices.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

When government – in pursuit of good intentions – tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.

I’ve made it pretty clear that I can’t legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can’t. You do everything that you can.

Some people like to campaign like a conservative and legislate like a progressive.

We can’t legislate human nature.

If you don’t have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

I can’t legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

After Brexit, the E.U. will no longer legislate for us. All laws will be passed by the U.K. parliament and the devolved legislatures. Parliament will be truly sovereign, with the freedom to accept or reject any new rules.

It’s a hard thing to legislate. You can’t legislate good taste and you can’t put a number on it in terms of square footage. It’s a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

If other managers are going to say things I can’t legislate for that, that’s their opinions.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

If you can’t legislate, you can’t deal with problems.

You can’t legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

You can’t legislate good taste.

Honoring George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown Jr., and too many other Black people taken from our communities by state violence is at the heart of why we legislate in defense of Black lives – and it’s why we lead with an agenda rooted in saving lives.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It’s not an option. That’s a shocking thing to us in America.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I’m truly free, at least from you.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can’t legislate for it.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn’t mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

True enough, Trump is a formidable foe, and systemic inequalities and disparities are worsening under this administration. But they existed long before that. And I want to lead, organize, and legislate to disrupt these disparate outcomes.

We can’t legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can’t; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.