The Law Quotes

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.

Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.

These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.

I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him and he will face capital punishment and he will be removed.

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

We are a nation of laws.

I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law.

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.

Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.