Neal Shusterman Quotes

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Your not going to change the hearts and minds. You have to change to law.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

We can't legislate human nature.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Readiness to change from old law to new law enfeebles the power of the law.

Too often reform involves the mechanics of change rather than the underlying values.

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

"I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.