Unenforceable Non Quotes & Sayings

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim

Speaking out about ritual abuse brings more information and potential understanding about this issue to a society steeped in denial. There are many similar or related horrors in the world that are also denied. — Jadelinn

Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers. — Kevin Carson

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim

Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses ... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon. — Mark Waid

When you are harried, browbeaten, cajoled, bullied, pursued, threatened, bribed and surveyed by the state and its agencies, you have little inclination left over for obedience: least of all obedience to what one judge called the unenforceable. You have already paid your dues to society. Society can now look after itself. In the small sphere left to you, you will do exactly what you please, without regard to anyone else. — Theodore Dalrymple

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable. — John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable. — Martin Luther King Jr.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort
Of being strangers, at least to ourselves. — Mark Strand

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time. — Marty Nemko

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise. — Douglas Coupland

This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey. — Quentin L. Cook

Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable because of their internalized norms of righteous or correct behavior. Religious belief in right and wrong is a vital influence to produce such voluntary compliance by a large number of our citizens. — Dallin H. Oaks

This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms. — Ralph Klein

You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated. — Steve Toltz

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable. — Ellen Goodman