"I don't like to think of laws..." - Quote by George Carlin
I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
More by George Carlin
“I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.”
“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.”
“We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.”
More on Law
“Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!”
“Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.”
“Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.”
More on Rules
“To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.”
“As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.”
“Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.”