#laws

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#anarchy #any #appear #centuries #compare

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#equilibrium #general #her #impulse #inspires

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. ↗

— Morley Safer

#flaws #great #great president #know #president

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none. ↗

— Marat Safin

#federer #find #flaws #none #you

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa. ↗

— Walter Salles

#american #american films #brazil #create #distributed

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#i #idiots #laws #made #me

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#branch #general #language #languages #laws

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ↗

— George Savile

#could #laws #lawyers #speak #themselves

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. ↗

— George Savile

#execute #generally #laws #make #persons