One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government.
My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can’t understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don’t seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics. I’d be very happy just to understand the last singularity and leave the other ones to future generations.
However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn’t drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don’t think there’s any question that New York City’s very tough laws have reduced violence.
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.
And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they’re not going to – if the feds aren’t going to do their job, well, then, I’m up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they’re not – they’re not enforcing the laws!
Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion – to be homosexual is evil.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it – their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
