The Law Quotes

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.

I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.

We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on the specific result in a particular case or dispute.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?

In the depths all becomes law.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.