The Law Quotes

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

The law's the law, but people are people.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

I like practicing law.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.