The Law Quotes

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Believe as though you are, and you will be.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

The future you see is the future you get.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.