The Law Quotes

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

This isn't fair. I tell you guys everything. I don't hold back anything." "Believe me, I know," Della said. "I know more about you and Perry's relationship than the law allows.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

You bled on the Speaking stars ...I bet there's a law somewhere about that.

The Law may be hard but it's the law.

Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!" "Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-" "I did it because I love you!

Some Laws were meant to be broken.

I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below

Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.