Top 100 Law Is Quotes
#1. Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.
John Selden
#2. GAL3.11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. GAL3.12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Anonymous
#3. First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.
Buck Rodgers
#4. The only true law is that which leads to freedom,
Richard Bach
#5. I think the media projected the case of Asia Bibi in a right way. They have given the importance of this case and especially how the blasphemy law is being misused for the victimization [of religious minorities].
Shahbaz Bhatti
#6. Like a flash of lightning Arthur Schopenhauer appeared to me and said, The highest law is love, the love that is compassion,
Bohumil Hrabal
#7. A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody's life. No law is going to cure a human's lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I'd rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness.
Dan Groat
#8. Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.
Lawrence Lessig
#9. In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...
Joseph Telushkin
#10. You see, the spiritual law is that we receive according to what we give. So if you feel that you're giving more than you're receiving, you're either giving less than you think you are, or receiving more than you think you are. Either way, to receive more, you must give more.
H. Ronald Hulnick
#11. If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated, the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected.
Voltaire
#12. An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#13. The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]
George Herbert
#14. The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!
Arthur W. Pink
#15. Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
Lysander Spooner
#16. And when the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash.6
Malcolm Gladwell
#17. If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.
Veerappa Moily
#18. To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.
Owen Feltham
#19. The truth is that anyone ... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.
Louie Gohmert
#21. Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.
Rohinton Mistry
#22. Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.
Nancy Pelosi
#23. Law is always better than war.
Brian Eno
#24. One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
David Hare
#25. To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.
Mike DeWine
#26. The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.
Frederic Bastiat
#28. Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
Thomas Paine
#29. I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious classes in school. I'm a big believer in separation of church and state, and I think that's what ... the law is.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#30. That's not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember? The Law is hard, but it is the Law."
"I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.
Cassandra Clare
#31. I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#32. In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.
Clifford Allbutt
#33. 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
#35. Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#36. Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than.
William McDavid
#37. Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
R.J. Rushdoony
#38. My number one objective continues to be to defund or delay the implementation of Obamacare. But as long as any piece of this law is standing, it needs to apply to all Americans equally, and that includes members of Congress and our staff.
Michael McCaul
#39. The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.
Giulio Andreotti
#40. Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Arthur Goldberg
#41. We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#42. Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
Juvenal
#43. Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#44. The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
Robert Kennedy
#45. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. Do
Robert Penn Warren
#47. Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.
Fulton J. Sheen
#48. If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.
Billy The Kid
#49. Fabre looked up, his mobile face composed. "Good-bye," he said. "Georges-Jacques
study law. Law is a weapon.
Hilary Mantel
#51. Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
J. William Fulbright
#52. When we think the curse for violating God's Law is too severe, it's because we don't understand God or the nature of sin. God
Jerry Bridges
#53. Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.
Jonathan Sacks
#54. Life's only law is change. Everything is continuously changing, evolving and developing. Hindus say that it takes 840 million lives to become a human being, which emphasises the precious gift of being a human being.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#55. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.
Edward Kennedy
#56. The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.
Russell Kirk
#57. The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
W.S. Gilbert
#58. Anarchy is ... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness , formed through the development of science and law , is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#59. Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
Mo Ibrahim
#60. 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
#61. The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.
Ayn Rand
#62. No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman
#63. The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.
Thomas Dewey
#64. My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
Columba Bush
#65. For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.
David Novak
#66. Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?
Charles Stross
#67. In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.
Ann Coulter
#68. Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked. Therefore,
John Calvin
#69. My respect for the law was diminishing with every exchange. Dickens was right. The law is an ass, and I was starting to think that people are asses as well.
Wendy Buonaventura
#70. When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
William O. Douglas
#71. The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
Tony Hillerman
#72. Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
Thomas Sowell
#73. What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. In a world divided by differences of nationality, race, colour, religion and wealth [the rule of law] is one of the greatest unifying factors, perhaps the greatest, the nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion.
Tom Bingham
#75. The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.
Josephine Herbst
#76. Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.
Dennis Lindley
#77. It is true, law and war are much alike. War is but a more public kind of lawing; and law is but a more private kind of waring; and both of them remedies of the last refuge.
Daniel Cawdrey
#78. Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.
Allan Bloom
#79. If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
Dorothy Kilgallen
#81. This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
Andrew Jackson
#82. I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.
Louis Begley
#83. The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#85. Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man's feeble attempt to teach decency to others.
Joy Ratcliff Cagle
#86. A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
Clarence Thomas
#87. Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
#88. We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
Anthony Kennedy
#89. Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
Lydia M. Child
#90. The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
Ben Okri
#91. Law is for those who have forgotten the language of the heart and only know the language of the mind.
Osho
#92. No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
Livy
#93. No law is quite appropriate for all.
Livy
#94. Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.
John F. Kennedy
#95. Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its material conditions, that is, when its law is known. Before that, we have only groping and empiricism.
Claude Bernard
#96. The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is to ask if he would benefit by committing a crime. If a small burglary is likely to improve his legal position, at least temporarily, one may be sure he has been deprived of human rights.
Hannah Arendt
#97. To violate kingdom law is to bring negative consequences
Sunday Adelaja
#98. The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
Truman Capote
#99. Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
Sonia Sotomayor
#100. In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.
Aristotle.
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