#laws

Laws are never as effective as habits. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#habits #laws #never

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. ↗

— James Stockdale

#had #i #laws #mean #our

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#even #fair #get #grocery #grocery store

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#how #i #i wish #laws #lived

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#catch #cobwebs #flies #laws #like

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#flaws #i #know #me #other

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#ailments #bound #common #exemption #fellows

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #must #numerous #state #very

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #most #multiplied #state #then

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#important #laws #legislators #live #more