3,047 Quotes About Law

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.