Jacque Fresco Quotes

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

What is crucial is there be laws.

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

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?

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

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

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

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.

The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

Agencies exist to administer the law.

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

People should have fear of the law.

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

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

We are a country of laws.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

America is a country of laws.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

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