The Law Quotes

Discrimination in public benefits is also perfectly legal. Under federal law, people convicted of drug felonies are deemed ineligible even for food stamps.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

I would suggest to you, what we need to do is assert a stronger leadership at the national level to support law enforcement.

An enormous number of people come to the USA legally and then simply overstay their visas because we make no effort to hold them accountable to that or uphold the law.

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.

I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws.

In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.

We need people in the areas that create laws and policies who are filled with the Kingdom so that those laws can become the fabric of our social development.

A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law.” Raphael’s look was priceless. “My mother is an insane archangel.

Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get."

Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

We are nothing but by the law.

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.

Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law.

In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.

There are no victims in the universe, only creators. The Masters who have walked this planet all knew this.

You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. So create who and what you are, and then experience that.

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.

I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets a tax incentive, provided the charity is registered in terms of the law.

See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.