Bad Laws Quotes

• Las buenas personas no necesitan leyes que les digan que actúen con responsabilidad, mientras que las malas encontrarán la manera de eludir las leyes.

  Plato

  Sabio, Sabiduría, Ingenioso

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• We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Derecho, Personas, Necesidades

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• With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Law, Helping, Servant

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• It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Politics, Ruins

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Doctrine: Beng the Personal Utterances of the President on Various Matters of Vital Interest, Authoritatively Arranged for Reference in Their Logical Sequence; a Brief Summary of the Principles of American Citizenship and Government”

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• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Government, Justice

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). "El ingenio y la sabiduría de Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations", Gramercy

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• Las malas leyes son la peor clase de tiranía.

  Edmund Burke

  Libertad, Carpe Diem, Derecho

  Discurso en el Guildhall, Bristol, Inglaterra, 6 de septiembre de 1780

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• We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

  Alexander Bickel

  War, Law, Judging

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• Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

  Sarah Vowell

  Law, Behinds

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• Los malos hechos hacen malas leyes, y las personas que escriben malas leyes son, en mi opinión, más peligrosas que los compositores de canciones que celebran la sexualidad.

  Frank Zappa

  Writing, Law, People

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• No conozco ningún método para conseguir la derogación de leyes malas u odiosas tan eficaz como su estricta ejecución.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Éxito, Derecho, Política

  Primer discurso inaugural, 4 mar. 1869

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• Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

  Tom Driberg

  Law, Political, Accepting

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• If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

  James Callaghan

  Law, Action, Ifs

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• Las malas leyes hacen malas costumbres.

  Jane Aiken Hodge

  Law, Customs

  Jane Aiken Hodge (2014). “Watch the Wall, My Darling”, p.16, A&C Black

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• Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

  Denis Diderot

  Law, Break, Authority

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• It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

  Carrie Nation

  Law, Ifs

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• Ninguna nación cayó en el olvido o fue destruida porque tuviera malas leyes, o porque sus estadistas no fueran inteligentes, sino por CORRUPCIÓN INTERNA, y porque no pudieron mantener el PODER DE AUTOCONTROL.

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Inteligente, Ser, Ley

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• The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Law, Feet

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 12 Apr. 1852

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• When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Law, Example

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.160, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

  John Y. Campbell

  Law, Prison, Said

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• Desde los primeros tiempos, [la iglesia] se ha lanzado violentamente contra todo esfuerzo por liberar el cuerpo y la mente del hombre. Ha sido, en todo tiempo y lugar, la habitual e incorregible defensora de malos gobiernos, malas leyes, malas teorías sociales, malas instituciones. Fue, durante siglos, apologista de la esclavitud, como lo fue del derecho divino de los reyes.

  H. L. Mencken

  Reyes, Hombres, Ley

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• Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

  Fred Thompson

  Law, Wade, Medical Science

  "Did NBC Misrepresent Thompson as Being Opposed to Overturning Roe?" by Mark Finkelstein, www.newsbusters.org. March 12, 2007.

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• It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Law, Government

  Alexander Hamilton (2014). “The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay”, p.372, Yale University Press

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• There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Law, Phrases

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• Los malos hechos hacen malas leyes, y las personas que escriben malas leyes son, en mi opinión, más peligrosas que los compositores que celebran la sexualidad. La libertad de expresión, la libertad de pensamiento religioso y el derecho al debido proceso de compositores, intérpretes y vendedores están en peligro si el PMRC y las grandes discográficas consuman este desagradable acuerdo.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Writing, Law

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• En un mundo en el que hay tanto que interesarse, tanto que gozar y tanto que corregir y mejorar, todo el que posea esta moderada cantidad de requisitos morales e intelectuales es capaz de una existencia que puede llamarse envidiable; y a menos que a tal persona, por malas leyes o por sujeción a la voluntad de otros, se le niegue la libertad de utilizar las fuentes de felicidad a su alcance, no dejará de encontrar la envidiable existencia

  John Stuart Mill

  Derecho, Intelectual, Libertad

  John Stuart Mill (2017). "Utilitarismo", p.13, Coventry House Publishing.

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