Legislate Quotes

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein

Religion, Power, Political

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato

Ways, Happening, Accidents

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun

Political, Hatred, Tolerance

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
Malcolm X

Education, Good, Through

You can't legislate morality.
Jesse Ventura

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank

Writing, Short, Away

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

Against, Nations, Laws

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
Malcolm Turnbull

Future, Today, Live

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
Gary Ross

Person, Mean, Racism

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Cannot, Problems, Tried

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.
Fred Upton

Notice, Obama, Unable

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing

Down, Cannot, Put

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Cannot, Anyone, Morality

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
Jacques Delors

Between, Collective, Unions

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
Steve Buyer

Government, Before, Fact

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
Pete Coors

Marriage, Woman, Between

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
Paul Muldoon

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
Ben Elton

Difficult, Morality

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
Preet Bharara

Leadership, History, Integrity

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.
Mike Lee

Jobs, Creation, Created

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
Katherine Harris

Sin, Essence, Christians

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
Zack Wamp

Age, Good, Living

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
Linda Lingle

Health, Women, Choices

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
Ann Robinson

Good, End, Hard

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
David Crosby

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
Jonathan Coleman

Feelings, Thoughts, Enough

You can't legislate sobriety.
Robert Zemeckis

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.
Sandra Fluke

Women, Men, Government

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.
John Campbell

Last, Ready, Months

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