law effectiveness Quotes

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

Whenever the words of a law will bear two meanings, one of which will give effect to the law, and the other will defeat it, the former must be supposed to have been intended by the Legislature, because they could not intend that meaning, which would defeat their intention, in passing that law; and in a statute, as in a will, the intention of the party is to be sought after

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

All law is a dead letter without public opinion behind it.

There is no system of regulation or law that can prevent crime, white collar or otherwise.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; …

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.'

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws

Every law out there is to protect the safety of every individual, regardless of their age and regardless of their race. And so, if those laws are not working, then we need to work to change them.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.

Laws can only be as effective as the willingness of people to obey them.

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Very good laws may be ill timed.