The laws of men are not infallible.
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely thro...
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family.
We should refrain from adopting laws that would allow countries with poor scorecard on human rights to exploit backdoors on techs for silencing dissent.
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute forc...
To flourish in life is to live according to the laws of the kingdom that God ordained
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.