#laws

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#arms #cannot #composite #every #follow

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#flaws #frailties #i #imperfections #locked

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. ↗

— James Madison

#cannot #choice #incoherent #laws #little

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

#aspect #assumes #classes #doubt #favor

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? ↗

— Bill Maher

#better #country #critique #else #flaws

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilized #civilized nations #koran #laws #legislate

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. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#change #goes #laws #long #long time

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#believes #changed #changes #goes #i

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#laws #love #manifestations #me #nature