To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.
Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.
One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.
Bans are laws for the stupid.
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.