Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today’s intelligence challenges.
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, ‘Let’s put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,’ and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.
If we don’t get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It’s time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Policing has never been about public safety: its origins are rooted in social control, the denial of people’s human rights, securing the U.S. borders, recapturing escaped, enslaved Africans, and upholding racist, homophobic, and transphobic laws.
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
You don’t need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don’t believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.
If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional ‘rights’ in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people’s right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Ethics are more important than laws.
I hate to think life is just facts and laws.
I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don’t have to go on welfare.
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune’s laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it’s – it’s fascinatingly interesting.
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who’s down.
One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‘reform’ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature’s laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.
Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy.
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves – and we will do so. No laws will stop this.
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
The Bible is not only laws, it’s also stories.
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.
Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.
States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
You can’t say ‘because we decide we’re different then we need a different set of laws.’
That is to say, nature’s laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.
Proper training and federal supervision in state-federal partnerships are essential to both assuring constitutional rights and enforcing our immigration laws. Our Founding Fathers’ concept of federalism does not prohibit such cooperation, and we have learned from experience that joint efforts work best.
Our Nation’s immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people’s ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.
I know we can’t abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
Congress’s definition of torture in those laws – the infliction of severe mental or physical pain – leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man’s ascent.
I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.
Violent crime is a solved problem – all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
