Laws And Rules Quotes:

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

- Jamie Dimon

topic: Government, Law, Regulation, Laws And Rules, Rules And Regulations

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

topic: Freedom, Matter, Break, Laws And Rules, Breaking Rules

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Life, Mean, Law, Laws And Rules, Rule Of Law

There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.

- Wanda Sykes

topic: Commitment, Law, Partnership, Laws And Rules

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

- Andre Gide

topic: Education, Law, Childhood, Laws And Rules

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

- Horace

source: Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189

topic: Men, Law, Judging, Laws And Rules, Greatest Man

Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.

- Ben Bova

topic: Being Yourself, Law, Space, Laws And Rules

I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.

- George Carlin

source: Source: mavericksofthemind.com

topic: Thinking, Hands, Law, Laws And Rules

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and thesame in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

- Baruch Spinoza

topic: Nature, Law, Understanding, Laws And Rules, Universal Laws

The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

- Freda Adler

source: "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

topic: Men, Law, Class, Laws And Rules

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

- Jacques Derrida

topic: Law, Games, Forever, Laws And Rules

Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.

- William P. Young

topic: Order, Law, Missing, Laws And Rules, Chain Of Command

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

- John of Salisbury

source: "Policraticus". Book by John of Salisbury, Bk. 4, ch. 1, 1159.

topic: Law, Tyrants, Differences, Laws And Rules