The Law Quotes

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

The law never tells you to pray.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.