The Law Quotes

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

The law must have the last word.

There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

Everything you want also wants you.

Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

Positive thought expands the halo of mind energy.

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

Nobody notices when things go right.

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

The more you give away, the more you get back.

Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

The laws of thermodynamic s are such that if the water is getting warmer - and I believe it is - the energy of the weather is going to go up.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it will be, when you start using the secret.

We all work with one infinite power.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.