The Law Quotes

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

What we project, we get back.

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric similar to that of [Donald] Trump.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.

But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, And hear His pardoning voice Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice.

Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!