#laws

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#folly #guarantee #laws #ought #possessors

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. ↗

— John Sununu

#defining #forced #laws #left #legal

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. ↗

— David Gerrold

#does #immune #laws #mean #operations

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#human intelligence #intelligence #intelligible #laws #mathematics

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#laws #lives #make #may #own

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #more #numerous #state

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#general #laws #particular #probability #true

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#character #flaws #i #i love #love

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy. ↗

— John Hutton

#civil #civil society #economy #effectiveness #european