Top 100 No Law Quotes
#1. It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned Hand
#3. The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
Floyd Abrams
#4. It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy ...
Rajneesh
#5. I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity
Grant Morrison
#6. That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,)
By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;
They, who the written Rule and never known,
Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone:
To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead;
And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.
John Dryden
#7. No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
Pope Benedict XVI
#8. Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.
L. Ron Hubbard
#9. True "volunteering," then, obeys no law, seeks no returns, pays no debts, plans no praise for yourself, nor proves your goodness
Walter Wangerin Jr.
#10. Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
George Will
#11. No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.
Trey Gowdy
#12. There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Joseph Barbera
#13. Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression,
K'wan
#15. Lawlessness doesn't mean there's no law, you know, it just means that there are a lot of different laws slugging it out in the streets, and none of them have come out on top yet.
Catherynne M Valente
#16. There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.
John Barry
#17. It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
Ruben Blades
#18. I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.
Brandon Lee
#19. 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
#22. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
Agatha Christie
#23. She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.
Dodie Smith
#24. There's no law against admiring a best friend's sister.
Coleen Kwan
#25. If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
Jakob Bohme
#26. There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.
Alex Steffen
#27. There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
William Ralph Inge
#29. Being Lutheran is about having the theological roadblocks cleared away. No good works. No law pretending to be Gospel. No popes or piety. No moralism. Just the Gospel loudly and clearly proclaimed.
A. Trevor Sutton
#30. The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
Philip Massinger
#31. Love should have no boundaries, no limits, and no law. Love should be free, and freely given to whomever it wants.
Cameo Renae
#33. People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.
Terry Pratchett
#34. With no Law to regulate their Behavior save Self-interest, though, plainly there is Nothing to prevent an irregular Militia from becoming more of a Threat to the Citizenry than the Dangers from which it offers to preserve them.
Diana Gabaldon
#36. What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
Henry David Thoreau
#37. What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them.
Michio Kaku
#38. There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house.
- Charlie Swan
Stephenie Meyer
#39. 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
#40. With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#41. Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
Josh Billings
#42. No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#43. I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.
Chicken John
#45. The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.
Geoffrey Ward
#46. Out there, in no man's territory, there is no law as you know.
Therefore you should create your own laws and enforce them.
If not, prepare to be hunted or ... subject to the laws of strangers.
Toba Beta
#47. What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
DeForest Soaries
#48. The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#49. There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.
Michael Azerrad
#50. There is no law that sermons shall be the preacher's own, but there is an eternal law against all manner of humbug. Pardon the word.
George MacDonald
#51. 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
#52. You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip.
Michael Magnusson
#53. There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
Astro Teller
#54. Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
Thomas Sowell
#55. There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.
Bill Vaughan
#57. No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked.
Fanny Brice
#58. Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!
Rand Paul
#59. Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law.
Charles Manson
#60. There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
John Ruskin
#61. No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
Livy
#63. Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.
James Madison
#64. There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.
Rush Limbaugh
#65. No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
Livy
#66. No law is quite appropriate for all.
Livy
#68. 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
#69. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade ...
Ayn Rand
#70. No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people
Clarence Darrow
#71. The First Amendment ... begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
George Will
#72. Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
Oliver Cromwell
#73. Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.
Monica Bellucci
#74. The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke
#75. It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more.
Anthony Burgess
#76. There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.
Scott Hastie
#77. Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
Zora Neale Hurston
#78. There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.
A.E. Samaan
#79. Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.
Kim Stanley
#80. He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
Thomas Carlyle
#81. This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
Jack Kevorkian
#82. History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
Ravi Zacharias
#83. When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
George Henry Lewes
#84. ....Environmentalists try to preserve these ecosystems through political action. Yet no law will succeed in preserving something that people know only from a distance or do not understand at close range.
Richard Rabkin
#85. People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.
Joseph Heller
#86. But to fulfill the law means to do its work eagerly, lovingly and freely, without the constraint of the law; it means to live well and in a manner pleasing to God, as though there were no law or punishment.
Martin Luther
#87. There was no law against being an asshole.
Joey W. Hill
#89. There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft ...
Clement Freud
#90. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
#91. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
U.S. Congress
#92. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
George Eliot
#95. So what we can say is that freedom is the experience of abnormality as possibility, uttered in abstraction and compelled by strange-love that no law can underwrite.
Anonymous
#96. No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson
#97. There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
Barbara Jordan
#98. Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.
Roman Dmowski
#99. There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
Cesar Chavez
#100. Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
Lysander Spooner
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