Law Quotes
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.
The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself
In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.
The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.