Law

Quote link. Other quotes about: brother devil mind hard Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.: "He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by D. H. Lawrence.: "Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
Quote link. Other quotes by Dick Houser.: "When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by Robert Frost.: "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people man rule country Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america power god people man respect government religion lies Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power nature change Other quotes by Edmund Burke.: "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find change Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live good need Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find day think never man person sin single Other quotes by Hermann Hesse.: "...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty sun Other quotes by John Morley.: "Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order."
Quote link. Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god think service soul Other quotes by John Quincy Adams.: "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right mother father Other quotes by Aeschylus.: "'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
Quote link. Other quotes by Eric Ambler.: "For the skeptic there remains only one consolation if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency."
Quote link. Other quotes by James 210 Bible.: "For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin single Other quotes by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce.: "Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing nature person change Other quotes by H Hahn Blavatsky.: "Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Nadia Boulanger.: "The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live honest Other quotes by Bob Dylan.: "To live outside the law you must be honest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live man Other quotes by Sir Richard Francis Burton.: "Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain light music rule born Other quotes by Truman Capote.: "Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god men nature rest service Other quotes by John Calvin.: "The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think person Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr..: "I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr..: "An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ramsey Clark.: "Who will protect the public when the police violate the law"
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth work human sin single Other quotes by I Ching.: "Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power reason believe human past Other quotes by Noam Chomsky.: "There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."
Quote link. Other quotes by Colley Cibber.: "Possession is eleven points in the law."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Maurice Clark.: "Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day good Other quotes by Mario M Cuomo.: "I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die people country Other quotes by Idi Amin Dada.: "In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature sin Other quotes by Charles Robert Darwin.: "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech power something Other quotes by Laertius Diogenes.: "Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by William Orville Douglas.: "Common sense often makes good law."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Duffy.: "People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work people Other quotes by Lowell Duckett.: "Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man husband wife young Other quotes by Will Durant.: "The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother old something people Other quotes by Elizabeth II.: "I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work men government Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.: "Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ believe god sin forgiveness alone Other quotes by John Fredericksen.: "The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of Grace, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 2121). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 1338-39). The measuring rod of grace tells us that the age of Grace began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of grace."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Felix Frankfurter.: "Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings."
Quote link. Other quotes by Edward Gibbon.: "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience art think book person Other quotes by Lavina Goodell.: "Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ Other quotes by Henry Grube.: "There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck work something time people life success past mind Other quotes by John W. Hanley.: "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Herbert.: "Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art reason old human god man change soul Other quotes by Hermes.: "From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money Other quotes by Frank McKinney Hubbard.: "Litigation A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: future devil forget Other quotes by William Ralph Inge.: "There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: first society Other quotes by Howard Mumford Jones.: "Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature Other quotes by Paul Jones.: "It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people Other quotes by James Earl Jones.: "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: gratitude work good person love fear Other quotes by Richard Jordan.: "The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life Other quotes by Immanuel Kant.: "May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Immanuel Kant.: "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength think nothing Other quotes by Thomas a Kempis.: "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend never good Other quotes by Jean Kerr.: "A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life making Other quotes by Edward Irving Koch.: "The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Kunstler.: "This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man wisdom Other quotes by Christine Lane.: "Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe."
Quote link. Other quotes by Doris Lessing.: "In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man wisdom country Other quotes by Primo Levi.: "A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles McCabe.: "McCabe's Law Nobody has to do anything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first person important grow Other quotes by Peter McWilliams.: "Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend day friends Other quotes by Nicholson.: "Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today future rule Other quotes by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.: "Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work god sin Other quotes by John Owen.: "But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money power rule Other quotes by Gaius Petronius.: "What power has law where only money rules."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical right man future Other quotes by Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck.: "We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science Other quotes by Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck.: "Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men respect good wise conscience Other quotes by Pope Pius XI.: "Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men freedom Other quotes by Pythagorus.: "As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man Other quotes by Henry Martyn Robert.: "Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical human man life dead Other quotes by Rudolph Rocker.: "Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world little people man worse hard Other quotes by John Ruskin.: "There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength power look Other quotes by Saville.: "Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments."
Quote link. Other quotes by Solomon Short.: "Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed"
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man Other quotes by John Selden.: "Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong die live world people men man sun father today war love country born Other quotes by Sitting Bull.: "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country"
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy rule Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.: "As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech right day man peace person sin Other quotes by Roger B. Taney.: "It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect Other quotes by Clarence Thomas.: "Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Unknown.: "Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature Other quotes by Marquis de Vauvenargues.: "It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Bill Veeck.: "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off."
Quote link. Other quotes about: country Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady."
Quote link. Other quotes by Earl Warren.: "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Frank Zappa.: "The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find Other quotes by Arcesilaus.: "Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Benjamin H. Brewster.: "A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500."
Quote link. Other quotes about: book living honest rich Other quotes by Henry Brougham.: "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong Other quotes by Cicero.: "The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Cicero.: "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good Other quotes by Cicero.: "The people's good is the highest law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason right men man nature good wise Other quotes by Victor Cousin.: "All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class Other quotes by John Dalberg.: "The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: important Other quotes by John and Brand, Josh Falsey.: "You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right man change Other quotes by James A. Forude.: "History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live man Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law."
Quote link. Other quotes by Glaser and Way.: "The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical work human man nature good Other quotes by R. E. Hellmund.: "Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity."
Quote link. Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature mankind Other quotes by S. E. Lindsay.: "Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: important influence Other quotes by Harold Laki.: "No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Langland.: "Necessity has no law."
Quote link. Other quotes by William H. Mauldin.: "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Ambrosius Macrobius.: "Good laws have their origins in bad morals."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason little Other quotes by Alex Levin.: "The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little Other quotes by Joe Martin.: "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prison people Other quotes by Joe Martin.: "If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men nature society born Other quotes by Charles de Montesquieu.: "In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jeff Melvoin.: "The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human life good person Other quotes by Max Nordau.: "Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man respect Other quotes by Adam Clayton Jr. Powell.: "A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
Quote link. Other quotes by Roscoe Pound.: "The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope man war woman Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience right good Other quotes by Cornelius Tacitus.: "It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others."
Quote link. Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human first time freedom Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human first Other quotes by Isaac Asimov.: "One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books talk right time book country Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america right Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason nothing Other quotes by John Powell.: "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god day people words Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad light Other quotes by Douglas Adams.: "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe nature Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature"
Quote link. Other quotes about: human god man Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man saint sin rule Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live man Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance small world never nature game rule Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man discover Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aristotle.: "Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Aristotle.: "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live society perfect Other quotes by Aristotle.: "Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy fear Other quotes by Aristotle.: "I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by James Fenimore Cooper.: "It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first rule Other quotes by John Dryden.: "Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man purpose Other quotes by U.S. vs Cruikshan.: "The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence."
Quote link. Other quotes by J. Edgar Hoover.: "Justice is incidental to law and order."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth sin single teach Other quotes by J. Edgar Hoover.: "Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Aristotle.: "Law is order, and good law is good order."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good peace Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Albert Pike.: "The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "The law is sic a ass - a idiot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect conscience Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man important love Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
Quote link. Other quotes by German proverb.: "A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god seed answer soul Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something Other quotes by Chaim Weizmann.: "A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life grow Other quotes by Norman Mailer.: "There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth god live man sun Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hard Other quotes by Andrew Carnegie.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Will Rogers.: "With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke."
Quote link. Other quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis.: "The more laws, the less justice."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lao Tzu.: "The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope die believe men women rest lies Other quotes by Learned Hand.: "I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little Other quotes by Porterfield.: "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin single Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce.: "Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Publilius Syrus.: "He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck right answer Other quotes by Raymond Chandler.: "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
Quote link. Other quotes by Raymond Chandler.: "At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."
Quote link. Other quotes by G. C. Lichtenberg.: "Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature change Other quotes by Robert Burns.: "Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad find men nature Other quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli.: "Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life dreams Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men freedom Other quotes by Robert Francis Kennedy.: "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong death die something time man life respect dreams love sleep conscience mind wish country Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "To be, or not to be that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dead Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life past future look Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy people men man religion mind Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work Other quotes by Leon Jaworski.: "From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature run Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out."
Quote link. Other quotes by Colin Wilson.: "In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Bill Cosby.: "The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think man Other quotes by Archibald Cox.: "A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad find people need Other quotes by Plato.: "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sleep rich Other quotes by Anatole France.: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Quote link. Other quotes by Clarence Darrow.: "The law is a horrible business."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man society rule Other quotes by Ayn Rand.: "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mankind Other quotes by William Congreve.: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger grow country lies Other quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.: "The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.: "No man is above the law and no man below it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect peace Other quotes by Malcolm X.: "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Maupassant.: "A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first house Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews."

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