Outline of Law - People Who Have Influenced Law

Famous quotes containing the words people who, people, influenced and/or law:

“People who know what is good for other people all the time are as big a menace in our society as the capitalists.”
—May Hobbs (b. 1938)

“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
—Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)

“Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, “Is this mine?... Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?”... I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.”
—Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986)

“The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better.... Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)