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Bad Laws Quotes (page 2)

it is certain that seditions, wars, and contempt or breach of the laws are not so much to be imputed to the wickedness of the subjects, as to the bad state of the dominion. Baruch Spinoza
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation. Isak Dinesen
breathing secondhand smoke, being subject to unfair dairy pricing, and not being able to mime (or lap dance), though they are all tragic, tragic injustices, are not quite as bad as the systematic segregation of public transportation based on skin color. And while fighting for your right to lap dance and mime and breathe just regular pollution is a very fine, very American idea, it is not quite as brave as being middle-aged black woman in Alabama in 1955 telling a white man she's not giving... Sarah Vowell
We must know the truth; and we must avoid error,--these are our first and great commandments as would-be knowers; but they are not two ways of stating an identical commandment, they are two separable laws. Although it may indeed happen that when we believe the truth A, we escape as an incidental consequence from believing the falsehood B, it hardly ever happens that by merely disbelieving B we necessarily believe A. We may in escaping B fall into believing other falsehoods, C or D, just as... William James
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. Christopher Meloni
Ulysses S. Grant quote: "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws..."
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Ulysses S. Grant
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. Joseph Hume
Frank Zappa quote: "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and..."
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa
The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead. Roger Spottiswoode
Charles Macklin quote: "Good laws are the offspring of bad actions."
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. Charles Macklin
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. Karl Lagerfeld
Samuel Richardson quote: "The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men,..."
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. Samuel Richardson
James Inhofe quote: "A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its..."
A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things. James Inhofe
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff. Clint Eastwood
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. A. R. Ammons

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