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People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. Steven Pinker

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

Melissa Etheridge

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

David Crosby

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

Jacques Barzun

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

Norman Ralph Augustine

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

Gary Ross

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Jacques Delors

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Malcolm X

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.

Jonathan Coleman

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.

Steve Buyer

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.

Ann Robinson

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.

Caleb Cushing

You can't legislate sobriety.

Robert Zemeckis

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.

Zach Wamp

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

Mike Lee

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

Steven Pinker

You can't legislate morality.

Jesse Ventura

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Plato

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

Jay Alan Sekulow

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Naguib Mahfouz

They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.

Steven Van Zandt

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Pete Coors

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

Paul Muldoon

Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

Warren Spector

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

Linda Lingle

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

Preet Bharara

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

Judith Martin

It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly.

Tom Douglas