Quotes about law
law justice legal-system
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. Earl Warren
law practice water
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity David Hume
law practice errors
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. David Brainerd
law effort community
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. Barney Frank
law say-anything matter
I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself. August Wilson
law greed political
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it. Frederic Bastiat
law people independence
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds. Frederic Bastiat
law long purpose
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Frederic Bastiat
law substance income
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. Dee Hock
law practice evil
The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector Benjamin Harrison
law racism doubt
I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt. Benjamin Watson
law racism mind
I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment. Benjamin Watson
law dynamics matter
The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills. Bertrand Russell
law world-government way
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. Carl Clinton Van Doren
law
We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go. Rob Johnson
law optimism triumph
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. Agnes Repplier
law rights source
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. Charles Edward Merriam
law-of-attraction artist canvas
You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. Cheryl Richardson
law people house
So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery. Cheryl Mendelson
law joy genius
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect. Charles Henry Parkhurst
law challenges adequate
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. Bob Barr
law knowing grace
Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person. Beth Moore
law abuse injustice
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice. Bryan Stevenson
law forever christ
If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever. Catherine Booth
law actors film
I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors. Catherine Deneuve
law civilization tyrants
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal. Camille Paglia
law fool economics
"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool." Calvin Trillin
law nsa excess
Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA. Edward Snowden
law battle athens
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner. Edward Everett
law voting crow
That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World. Edwin Meese
law play borders
Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces. ... Legal immigrants do not seek to cross the border, or overstay their visas. They come here the right way. ... And, by and large, they are here as the result of reunifying families... Edward Kennedy
law members congress
Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else. Bobby Jindal
law hunger
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger. Benjamin Franklin