The Law Quotes

We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and the laws of nature or karma do not apply to us.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.

Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases. It's the law.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.

The law of common sense.

Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

I am coming back to that which has most affected me. I'm coming back to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.

If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

The law is where reality goes to die.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.