#laws

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#flaws #interesting #main #me #never

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#laws #sociology #nature

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#islam #laws #stable #why

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun. ↗

— Alan Alda

#frequently #fun #good #i #i love

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#laws #need #them #tremble #where

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#child #child support #children #easier #go

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

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#does #everything #fundamental #fundamental laws #imply

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#always #appears #certainty #everyday #guise

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ↗

— Aristotle

#been #down #even #laws #ought