Law Quotes

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

God is thy law, thou mine.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Donald Trump will do what he is told is the right thing to do in complying with the law.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

The natural laws of the universe are inviolable... what you say and do determines what happens in your life... You are the master of your life and death. What you do is what you are.

Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.