The Law Quotes

I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law.

I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws.

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory language. Making the list available is discretionary under the law.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.

With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law!

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.

There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.

There are laws of the universe and if you practice them they will respond to you.

I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental healing, healing of relationships.

When you make genuine contact with your inner Spirit, there is an inner joy, an inner peace, that takes over.

When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.