The Law Quotes

It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

We are 100% responsible for all our experiences. Every thought we think is creating our future.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.