Law Quotes

Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning
and watches the Discovery Channel.
I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
- Jeff Foxworthy

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him
to believe that the law contrives against him.
- Potter Stewart

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
- Henny Youngman

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis

To hear some men talk of the government,
you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation,
and kept the planets in their places.
- Wendell Phillips

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
- Samuel Butler

Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe

If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
- Boethius

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
- Jeremy Bentham

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life:
in education,
medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
- Barry Commoner

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.
- Andrew Carnegie

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment
on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum
of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
- Andy Grove

The law has no power over heroes.
- Charlotte Lennox

Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth.
Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
- Dick Clark

Music is a moral law.
It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
- Plato

The trouble with law is lawyers.
- Clarence Darrow

Whenever men take the law into their own hands,
the loser is the law.
And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
- Robert Kennedy

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
- Addison Mizner

If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
...
If a child lives with fear,
he learns to be apprehensive.
...
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns to be confident.
...
If a child lives with acceptance,
he learns to love.
- Dorothy Law Nolte

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
- Bugs Baer

Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the things I was taught in law school is that
I'd never be able to think the same again -
that being a lawyer is something that's part of who
I am as an individual now.
- Anita Hill

The law has no compassion.
And justice is administered without compassion.
- Christopher Darden

To believe in a just law of cause and effect,
carrying with it a punishment or a reward,
is to believe in righteousness.
- Ernest Holmes

I'll have you understand I am running this court,
and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
- Sam Ervin

All men are not created equal but should be treated
as though they were under the law.
- Andy Rooney

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution
does not recognize property in man,
but leaves that question, as between the states,
to the law of nature and of nations.
- William H. Seward

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
- David Guterson

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
- Daniel Webster

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice,
rather than contradict it.
- Alexander Cockburn

Our homeland is the whole world.
Our law is liberty.
We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
- Dario Fo

Evolution is not a force but a process.
Not a cause but a law.
- John Morley

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine
and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership
and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
- Rick Larsen

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name,
and becomes oppression.
Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name,
and becomes licentiousness.
- James Q. Wilson

Law and equity are two things which God has joined,
but which man has put asunder.
- Charles Caleb Colton

When we were making the law, when we were writing the
literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of
Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
- Robert Anton Wilson

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more
emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
- Calvin Coolidge

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law
were the stuff of dreams.
But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
- Bianca Jagger

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.
- Robin Gross

Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to
be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
- Thomas Ken

In recent years - before the intifada -
there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year,
and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.
- Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law
laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
- Alan Watts

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
- Charles Dickens

My children have no prejudices at all.
My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
- Dorothy Kilgallen

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature,
law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue
are more becoming to women than to men,
but wish we had more of it everywhere.
- Belva Lockwood

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked
much harder at his law studies,
is now Prime Minister.
- Alex Cox

We have one authority and one law and everyone has
the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
- Mahmoud Abbas

I know the law...
I am it's greatest transgressor.
- Roy Bean

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
- Randall Terry

The law is reason, free from passion.
- Aristotle

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday,
somehow I'd make a difference.
- Christopher Darden

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before
the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before
the law of entropy invaded it,
we would already be living in heaven.
- Walter Lang

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason,
it is of no force in law.
- Edward Coke

I use the rules to frustrate the law.
But I didn't set up the ground rules.
- F. Lee Bailey

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