There's not an effective way of enforcing the rules that these conventions set up. It's no point just having moral warnings and trying to get people to be good ... unless you can enforce them,


Greville Janner

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The dream of the Internet business is to set up the business and just push buttons, ... that is not ...
DONALD HARRIS
Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them i...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
It's reprehensible (and) clearly intended to convince any prospective juror that the (alleged) victi...
JOSHUA MARQUIS
All we have to do is get you to a point where you can write a good draft in 25 minutes. In 25 minute...
BARBARA WILLIAMS
Enforce the rules so that you may bend them.
ANGEL ORTIZ
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kin...
MARVIN OLASKY
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only wa...
EMMELINE PANKHURST
We're kind of playing God, in a sense. It's like we're trying to get this balance set up and trying ...
JUSTIN FIELD
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not va...
SIR ALFRED JULES AYER
Assuming theres insurance, there would be no reason not to carry on, ... This just pushes us back on...
BOB GOODMAN
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflic...
XUN KUANG
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
Theres no way to be successful
in music and be debauched.
GREG KOCH
We're just trying to be good leaders and set an example for the rest of the team.
DAN CARLETON
Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ
More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER
There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
Not everyone has to be the chosen one. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most peop...
PATRICK NESS
The current EU statement is the latest in a very long list of warnings sent to the Government and Mi...
DAMIEN MULLEY
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT
To sustain moral behavior, people need more than simply a list of rules. They need to be people who ...
GREG FORSTER
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
Trying to engage with an unapproachable person can lead to embarrassment, alienation, and resistance...
SUSAN C. YOUNG
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn'...
CURTIS GRANT
I'm trying to get them to play the way that they can so that when we get into the Big East they'll b...
MAC GIFFORD
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
That issue has to be addressed in a more structured way by small states. You cannot allow the WTO to...
CLYDE MASCOLL
Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Mo...
PATRICK NESS
I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.
JOEL OSTEEN
Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all t...
MIKE D
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral valu...
H.L. MENCKEN
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - w...
EDWARD KENNEDY
Silicon in its bulk format we all know is not an efficient emitter but when you get down to the quan...
CONRAD BURKE
During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
GARY WOLF
If we get frost once the flower's there, there's not much that can be done unless you use leaves or ...
JUDY MILLER
Theres no secret to success at Mount Union. You recruit them, you prepare them and then you go out a...
DON MONTGOMERY
Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very qu...
JULIANNE MOORE
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up...
ANDREW CARNEGIE
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how man...
MORTIMER ADLER
Now that the rules have been changed, it does change the way these events can be put on. It's not as...
DAVE BYRON
What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer w...
SANHITA BARUAH
It's not just about having a great idea. You have to be able to communicate that in a concise, effec...
STAN MANDEL
Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a ...
JAROD KINTZ
No matter how efficient you try to be, there will always be a chance that the people you work with o...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER ADLER
in life theres always that one person that always find a way to cheer you up ,and that always know h...
NADIRA AHMED
Tony Soprano is an everyday kind of guy, bringing up teen-agers, having a daughter, trying to get he...
LORRAINE BRACCO
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
He couldn’t just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subt...
SARAH MAYBERRY
It's just frustrating, ... All you're trying to do is help and get help to people in need and you se...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL
The enforcement arms of Congress have been missing in action for quite some time and it's unclear wh...
MASSIE RITSCH
It was a really good match in the first set. (The blisters) just erupted. We tried to tape them up, ...
DALE JENSEN
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS
We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
Rules. Even as the world of phone and computer sex (and dominance) were full of their own rules, so ...
LAURA ANTONIOU
If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn shou...
REID HOFFMAN
Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?"
"You win in lots of different ways," As...
CATE TIERNAN
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
This year we started strictly enforcing it as it was written, ... I don't know, maybe I take the bla...
JIM DUNCAN
During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. Th...
VANESSA LENGIES
Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unle...
SUZY KASSEM
Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unle...
SUZY KASSEM
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged the...
CHARLES BUXTON
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged the...
CHARLES BUXTON
One of his delusions drove him to testify, If I can just get up and talk to the American people, I w...
XAVIER AMADOR
For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the...
JENELL ATLAS
For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the...
LT. JENELL ATLAS
to enforce the rules.
ALEX HERNANDEZ
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You beli...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG
This time of year, corporate use of jets tapers off because there aren't board meetings or conventio...
CRAIG FOSTER
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one c...
MARGARET DRABBLE
We can show the regulators that we set up guidelines and that we are enforcing those guidelines from...
JEFF ZLOT
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curios...
KEN ROBINSON
Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned ...
NICK HARKAWAY
We are trying to set up a budget that you can address, that you can look at and see where things are...
MANAGER HENRY DURANT
The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and...
PETER CAPALDI
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a...
ANNE PARILLAUD
If our efforts with the publisher fail then I shall certainly ask our Education Secretary (Ruth Kell...
GREVILLE JANNER
A book containing this offensive poem should not be included in any textbook,
GREVILLE JANNER
So it's not going to help create good relations between Jewish communities and others.
GREVILLE JANNER
Imagine the feelings of victims' families as they read the list and see the names of victims alongsi...
GREVILLE JANNER
Good luck trying to collect these fines. It's a start, but the prospect of prison time would probabl...
IRA MEHLMAN

More Greville Janner