The Law Quotes

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

Change the narrative, change the laws.