Quotes tagged ‘Laws’

“If we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.”

— Mike Bloomberg, inc.com

“It's always a good idea to bring reusable bags with you to the grocery store. But starting in 2020, forgetting them at home could cost you.”

— Harmeet Kaur, cnn.com

“In America, we have laws. Laws against killing, laws against stealing. And it is just accepted that as a member of American society, you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society which has its own laws. Football is a way of life.”

— W. Peter Iliff, Jonathan 'Mox' Moxon, James Van Der Beek, imdb.com

“The exemption for freelance journalists — which some have only just learned about via their colleagues, press reports, social networks and/or spirited arguments with the bill's author on Twitter — contains what some say is a potentially career-ending requirement for a writer to remain a freelancer.”

— Katie Kilkenny, hollywoodreporter.com

“They are murdered by the laws of the land and I think it's time it stopped.”

— Russell T Davies, John Preston , Lord Arran, David Bamber, imdb.com

“Our laws need to be as sophisticated as the people who are breaking them.”

— Amy Klobuchar, twincities.com

“In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”

— Jennifer Crittenden, Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, imdb.com

“No laws in Ceres. Just cops.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Detective Josephus Miller, Thomas Jane, imdb.com

“It's just that laws keep changing. It's getting very challenging to keep up with them all. For example, did you know that it is now illegal to give a possum a perm?”

— Josh Bycel, Karen Vick, Kirsten Nelson, imdb.com

“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”

— Emma Goldman, amazon.com

“Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained…”

— Emma Goldman, amazon.com

“yes. crossing the border without documentation is illegal. being black without a white owner was illegal. walking into a whites only restaurant was illegal. in germany, being a jewish person was illegal. without ethics, laws are just the stories we tell to justify horror.”

— isi breen, twitter.com

“This case, involving legal requirements for the content and labeling of meat products such as frankfurters, affords a rare opportunity to explore simultaneously both parts of Bismarck's aphorism that 'No man should see how laws or sausages are made.'”

— Antonin Scalia, casebriefs.com

“What we wanted was to allow families and victims a little more leverage around holding the school districts accountable.”

— Andrea Salinas, buzzfeed.com

“Put pressure on your lawmakers. Don’t let them off the hook.”

— Cameron Kasky, twitter.com

“The law couldn't do anything to help that little girl. But I could.”

— Luke Kalteux, Matt Murdock, Charlie Cox, imdb.com

“I don’t feel like the laws make it that much safer.”

— Dan Bilzerian, squaremile.com

“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”

— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com

“The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity.”

— Benjamin Harrison, top10-best.com

“Just a reminder: there is no law that you have to defend any and all conduct by people who happen to share the same politics as you.”

— Alyssa Rosenberg, twitter.com