The Law Quotes

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

There is no fate, but what we create.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

Any one can heal who believes that he can, and who will take the time to put that belief in motion through the Law.

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.