The Law Quotes

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Every solution breeds new problems.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

Law is mind without reason.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

Where love rules, laws are not needed.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

It is the way you feel that is your point of attraction.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.