The Law Quotes

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

So many laws argues so many sins.

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

Never underestimate the power of intention.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.

It should be a law. Everybody should legally own a gun. In fact, if you're caught outside your house without your gun, you get a ticket. And you get shot in the leg. Just to prove my point.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Common sense often makes a good law.

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.

I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

The law itself follows gold.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.