Restrictive Laws Quotes

The nanny state

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Incitement is a form of expression. How do we curb that without getting onto the slippery slope of curtailing all dissent and all troubling and contrarian speech?

The more laws and orders are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

In the Saudi system, women are considered inferior. No matter our age, we have male guardians. We must get permission from men to attend school, to work, to marry, to travel overseas - even to have basic medical procedures.

I would make it illegal to walk into a comedy club with a tie on.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.

I understand that people don't want to smoke. Fine. Don't smoke. You don't want to go into a restaurant where there's [smoking], don't go in there. But don't impose your will - the will of a few - on the lives of many.

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.

There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.