The Law Quotes

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.

Apparently, in the eyes of the law, my admiration of Justin Bieber is creepy.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

There are all different kinds of ways to define a family, and we have to take that into consideration when practicing family law. The law, they say, is always the last thing to change.

That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.

The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.