Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

All men must operate under one general law.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction.

The health of a nation is inversely proportional to the number of laws needed to govern it

The law exists to express our values.

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

The laws of a country are a reflection of the values of the people.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society.

No law however formal can withstand the effect of changes in opinion.

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

Laws are there for a reason, and we have an obligation to follow them.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.