Top 100 Bad Law Quotes
#1. Bad law-preaching levels some of us; Osteen's omission of the law levels none of us; biblical preaching of the law levels all of us.
Michael S. Horton
#2. There's this powerful phrase in the legal world, "Difficult cases make bad law." The exception is the difficult case. You can't generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don't solve any problem because they're so one of a kind.
Malcolm Gladwell
#5. Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,
Fred Thompson
#6. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
Denis Diderot
#9. If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
James Callaghan
#11. It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
Carrie Nation
#12. Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.
Robert Kurson
#13. I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Joseph Prince
#14. Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
Trey Gowdy
#15. When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.
Ted Nugent
#16. Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it ... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
E.B. White
#17. My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.
Martin Jacques
#18. First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
Tom DeMarco
#19. Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#20. I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys.
Cory Booker
#21. I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
Abraham Lincoln
#22. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law ...
Benjamin Tucker
#24. Threats from the street may be potentially lethal, but the threat from the "enemy within" is a far worse hazard to a law officers health and wellbeing.
Steve Neal
#25. Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.
Stephen King
#26. The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys.
Ted Cruz
#27. You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.
Ted Cruz
#28. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.
Rick Hoffman
#30. In retrospect, I now believe this expected donation of ten percent of income to the Fellowship was based on bad exegesis of an old Jewish taxation law that Jesus Himself seemed to completely ignore.
Dylan Morrison
#31. Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.
Rhonda Byrne
#32. Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. . Oh, my future brother-in-law called me today to find out if any of my friends from New York might be interested in making a bad decision for the night. Since when did I become a pimp to get Chance laid? I thought he was bringing that lovely flower lady.
Alex Morgan
#34. Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.
Tom Driberg
#35. When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself.
Marianne Williamson
#36. I lose my patience, and I own it too,
When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
Alexander Pope
#37. The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Eric Allman
#38. One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.
Marvin Ammori
#39. We decide ourselves whether to do right or wrong, whether to be good or evil. For some, it is fear that keeps them within the law, but for others it is a greater sense of good. I do not think any religion can make a person good, or protect a good person from bad happening to him.
Kathleen Givens
#40. A bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
#41. 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
#42. With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
Otto Von Bismarck
#43. three living men had seen horrors, and those who see horrors may do horrors just as bad, that is the law of life and war. Soon
Sebastian Barry
#44. Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.
Chris Rock
#45. Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
Confucius
#46. Jealousy makes you feel bad, but God is jealous, so it must be good. Yet when a dog licks its balls it seems to enjoy it, but it must be bad under the law.
Christopher Moore
#47. No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.
Melvin J. Ballard
#48. A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad Ayoob
#49. A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.
Janet Malcolm
#50. Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some level of our brains, is that we have to imagine everything coming apart ... It's what we are. Out of control, always prepared, Boy Scout control freaks.
Lawrence Joseph
#51. I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
Woody Guthrie
#52. This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.
James Lankford
#53. Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#54. A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Samuel Johnson
#55. And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.
Patricia Highsmith
#56. To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution. Impossible to enjoy the animals otherwise. Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.
Yann Martel
#57. It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
Isak Dinesen
#58. You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.
Rodney King
#60. It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
#61. It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
#62. But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.
Ward Farnsworth
#63. Homer is right: "Bad is the lordship of many; let one be your ruler and master." For such a man law would be rather an instrument than a limit: "for men of eminent ability there is no law - they are themselves a law.
Will Durant
#64. As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
Nick Cave
#65. I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.
Adam Croasdell
#66. What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.
Henry Rollins
#67. Best thing that ever happened to me, that shredded washer," he whispered.
"Too bad I didn't know what a washer was or I would have shredded it myself," I whispered back and he burst out laughing.
Kristen Ashley
#68. Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.
Emile Coue
#69. It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.
Aristotle.
#70. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.
Jamaica Kincaid
#71. Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Ammon Hennacy
#72. In his Social Contract, Rousseau noted the obvious, that Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property.
Saul D. Alinsky
#73. Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.
Barney Frank
#74. Dude, there should be a law against people singing that bad.
Carolee Dean
#75. It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
H.L. Mencken
#76. It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!
Russell Pearce
#78. There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
Baron De Montesquieu
#79. For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
Alan Dershowitz
#80. The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.
Roger Spottiswoode
#81. Think good and positive thoughts and you will attract good and positive things, think bad and negative thoughts and you will attract bad and negative things. It's as simple as that in theory, but it takes time to master it fully, it takes time, patience and practice.
Jeanette Coron
#82. I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
Les Dawson
#83. You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.
Christopher Meloni
#84. The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.
Sergei Lavrov
#85. For Baby, the marriage was a bad one, but it never entered her head that she might complain or refuse to marry Ram. . . . Fortunately, in her eyes what others might have considered an injustice, she considered a law of life.
Shiva Naipaul
#86. No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.
H.L. Mencken
#87. I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
Floyd Abrams
#88. A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;
Charles Dickens
#89. Law of attraction says: "We'll give you whatever it is you say and focus on." and so if you are complaining about how bad it is, what you're creating is more of how bad it is.
Jack Canfield
#90. Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
Aristotle.
#91. Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
Demonax
#93. It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.
Paul Singer
#94. The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
Philip Massinger
#95. Mostly suck - it's the law of averages, I figure, especially when you're on the job. Then you cross paths with people like that. Bad shit's happened to them, seriously bad shit, but they still come out of it decent.
J.D. Robb
#96. The law didn't care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.
Cory Doctorow
#97. When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
Daniel Cudmore
#98. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad.
Oscar Wilde
#99. It is not enough to make good laws;
they must be enforced.
It is not enough to denounce bad laws;
they must be changed.
The better the laws the more righteous the judgments.
The wiser the rulers are the more prosperous a nation.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.
Steven T. Byington
