Social legislation cannot repeal physical laws.
-- Dalin B. Oaks
-- Dalin B. Oaks
Related:
- Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.
Dalin B.... - Law expands in proportion to the resources available for its enforcement.
Dalin B.... - It is possible to pass laws that control or place limits on people's behavior,
but legislation cannot reform human nature. Laws cannot... - Physical laws simply cannot be ignored. Existence cannot be without them.
Spock, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3... - Physical reality is consistent with
universal laws... - If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation
should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of
criminal acts reduced by such legislation.
That they cannot do so after a century and a half of... - CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Repeal
inhibition!... - That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature
of things.
No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair...
