Legislate Quotes

"Do the day`s work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don`t be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don`t be a demagogue. Don`t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don`t hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don`t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don`t hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation."

But in a strange way, the more organization and the more preparation you do, the more freedom it gives to the performances and to those things that are totally dependent on those moments when you shoot. Visual things are very complicated. I can`t improvise visual events. I can`t improvise a sense of composition. I have to compare. I have to look at the street where we are shooting on. I have to know where the light is coming from. Obviously, you would have to know where the trucks are parked and stuff like that. But what you cannot legislate for is emotion, the way emotion displays itself in a scene and that always comes from the actors. That is the way I work.

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.

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

legislate from the bench.

You can`t legislate morality.

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.

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

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

Of course, you can`t legislate for how people are going to read.

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.

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.

Because Naples is such a gathering point for tourism and also for many people in the county, how we govern and legislate here affects all those people.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn`t. I don`t want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don`t believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That`s not how it works in America.