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Laws Quotes
On order, morality, and the limits of written rules.
One line compares the structure of morality to the structure of music, treating both as governed by underlying laws rather than personal taste. Another suggests that an excess of laws says as much about the people who wrote them as about anyone they were meant to restrain. Related reading continues on Bad quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Petty laws breed great crimes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
- Civilized Nations
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
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We are a nation of laws.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
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