335 Quotes About Laws

Just as the banqueteers are drunk from wine, the citizens are drunk from fears, hopes, desires, and aversions and are therefore in need of being ruled by a man who is sober.

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.They are not Christians - they are Leviticans.

Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with.

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?

The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.

How can we enjoy colorful life, when law is black and white ?