Legislate Quotes

Countries legislate out creativity. — Dennis Roberts

You can't legislate sobriety. — Robert Zemeckis

But our hope does not lie in enforcing our ethic upon secular governments. We can't legislate the kingdom of God into existence. — Preston Sprinkle

You can't legislate good taste. — George Clooney

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many. — Aristotle.

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

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

We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

You can't really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes. — Tom Hiddleston

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

You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you. — William A. Dembski

A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it. — Andi Zeisler

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred? — Julie Anne Peters

I can't legislate to change human nature. — John Major

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

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

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

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

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences — Eric Schmidt

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. — James Gibbons

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

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

In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else. — Eric Schmidt

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate. — James A. Garfield

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

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

This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth. — William Jennings Bryan

You can't legislate against stupidity. — Jesse Ventura

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

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. — Aristotle.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. — Will Rogers

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

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. — Steven Pinker

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

I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another. — Jerry West

I think all we should legislate is morality. — John Ashcroft

one cannot legislate, dictate, or veto the laws of physics, and politics has no place in technical decisions. The — Allan J. McDonald

You cannot legislate an attitude. — H. Rap Brown

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away. — Melissa Etheridge

It is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it. — J. Budziszewski

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

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

You can't legislate morality. — Jesse Ventura

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. — David Souter

We can't legislate human nature. — Taya Kyle

You can't legislate stupidity. — Jesse Ventura