Famous quotes containing the words laws and/or act:
“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)