Top Law Quotes Collection
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspiciousCollection: Law
Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.Collection: Law
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.Collection: Law
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.Collection: Law
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.Collection: Law
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.Collection: Law
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.Collection: Law
I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof; Even so Amen.Collection: Law
The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.Collection: Law
That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.Collection: Law
The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.Collection: Law
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.Collection: Law
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.Collection: Law
I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'Collection: Law
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.Collection: Law
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.Collection: Law
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.Collection: Law
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.Collection: Law
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.Collection: Law
Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.Collection: Law
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.Collection: Law
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.Collection: Law
Labor is the law of happiness.Collection: Law
Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?Collection: Law
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.Collection: Law
I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.Collection: Law
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.Collection: Law
Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.Collection: Law
The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.Collection: Law
Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.Collection: Law
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.Collection: Law
do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.Collection: Law
Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.Collection: Law
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.Collection: Law
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.Collection: Law
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.Collection: Law
When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question?Collection: Law
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.Collection: Law
I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."Collection: Law
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.Collection: Law
We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.Collection: Law
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it-literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly.Collection: Law
The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.Collection: Law
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.Collection: Law
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.Collection: Law
The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.Collection: Law
We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us.Collection: Law
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.Collection: Law
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.Collection: Law
The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system. ... The education of youth ... lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest for success.Collection: Law