Quotes about law
law opposites long
That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite. Robert Lanza
law existence grows
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence. Robert Lanza
law community police
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
law mind bears
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances. Robert Greene
law museums world
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. Robert Ballard
law catholic libertarian
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'. Robert Anton Wilson
law violence rich
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. Robert Anton Wilson
law skills survival
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. Richard Leakey
law democracy separation
What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
law republic social-media
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws Recep Tayyip Erdogan
law political elements
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
law socialist-economy essentials
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. Samora Machel
law careers judging
I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case that came before me; he insisted on scrupulously following precedents. Samuel Alito
law people liberty
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams
law order liberty
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. Sydney J. Harris
law wicked would-be
Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed. Ray Comfort
law conformity hours
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives. Raoul Dufy
law laws-of-life tyranny
It's a law of life: the tyranny of things. Randy Alcorn
law meditation way
Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears. Rajneesh
law practice
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice. Thomas Jefferson
law judging people
It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle. Thomas Jefferson
law rose pleasure
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce. Thomas Jefferson
law branches opinion
And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities. Thomas Jefferson
law towns said
There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration. Thomas Jefferson
law cost taste
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities. Thomas Jefferson
law important execution
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them. Thomas Jefferson
law judging safety
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law. Thomas Jefferson
law rights ifs
If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can. Thomas Jefferson
law together fifty
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. Thomas Jefferson
law giving judging
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. Thomas Jefferson
law tyrants judging
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. Thomas Jefferson
law taste controlled
Taste cannot be controlled by law. Thomas Jefferson
law together moral
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. Thomas Jefferson