Law Quotes

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

You can have, be or do, anything you want.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

Love is the law, love under will.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.