The Law Quotes

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind

The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Moral principle is the foundation of law.

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt.

It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.