Top 100 Quotes About The Law
#2. I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.
Jane Fonda
#3. The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.
Anthony Daniels
#4. Since they were visitors, they would have to share living space with those who lived there, and would be given the best accommodations. That was the law of hospitality.
Paulo Coelho
#5. If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
Chris Hayes
#7. When the condemning weight of the law is removed, people don't react with wild sin, as we might expect; they relax in their new freedom.
Tullian Tchividjian
#8. What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
Ann Brashares
#9. The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,
Ron Chernow
#10. As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.
Rhonda Byrne
#11. I use my own process, the law, and the skills of the people involved to help owners craft practical and sound solutions to achieve their goals in a way that works for them.
Larry D. Hause
#13. It is on our bodies that the law must go to work, not only on our minds. Reason must govern in collusion with the senses it subdues, rather as an astute sovereign rules in a way that allows each citizen to feel that he is doing no more than obeying the diktats of his own desires.
Terry Eagleton
#14. When you ban substances that people enjoy using so much that they'll break the law to do it, you create a black market with huge profits. And since purveyors of illicit drugs have no legal way to secure their investment, the trade will be run by increasingly violent criminals.
Anonymous
#15. The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.
Orrin Hatch
#17. The law, in this country, is dead. The Supreme Court doesn't follow the Constitution, Congress doesn't follow the Constitution. The President doesn't even want to follow the Constitution. And yet we're the ones called radical.
Matt Shea
#18. Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
Aristotle.
#19. It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#20. Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.
William J. Clinton
#21. I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.
Cherie Blair
#22. Mushari didn't see anything funny in that. He never saw anything funny in anything, so deeply immured was he by the utterly unplayful spirit of the law.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#23. We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
Calvin Coolidge
#25. Life can and should be phenomenal .. and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction.
Rhonda Byrne
#26. She's just tried to bloody knife me, Robin!"
"Well, she didn't manage it, did she?" commented Robin, busy with the kettle.
"Ineptitude," said Strike incredulously, "is no fucking defense under the law!
Robert Galbraith
#27. Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God is one in essence and three in person, so He is one in one sense and three in another sense, and that does not violate the categories of rational thought or the law of non-contradiction.
R.C. Sproul
#29. They were the same height and weight, and could wear each other's clothes. But Lev had charm by the ton. He was unreliable and selfish, and he lived on the edge of the law, but women adored him. Grigori was honest and dependable, a hard worker and a serious thinker, and he was single. It would
Ken Follett
#30. Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Solomon Short
#31. The Law was not how Israelites achieved salvation - it was how they showed loyalty to the God they believed in.
Michael S. Heiser
#32. All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Bart Stupak
#33. One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
Andy Stanley
#34. I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
#35. By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.
Isaac Newton
#36. There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.
Ayn Rand
#38. Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.
John Of Salisbury
#39. Thus the negro transmits the eternal mark of his ignominy to all his descendants; and although the law may abolish slavery, God alone can obliterate the traces of its existence.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#40. To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life's meaning. Fortunately,
C. G. Jung
#41. Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority.
Mike Lofgren
#42. In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.
Dayananda Saraswati
#44. Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
Swami Vivekananda
#45. Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression,
K'wan
#46. Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
Howard Zinn
#47. X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.
Marcus Aurelius
#48. The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.
Orison Swett Marden
#49. The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.
Bryan Caplan
#50. It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law.
Christina Engela
#51. I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people that have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law. I think that's the right course.
Mitt Romney
#52. This, then, is the freedom for which Christ has set us free: to have the law of Christ engraved on our hearts. His way is the perfect law, which is the law of liberty (James 1:25).
R. R. Reno
#53. The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.
Henry Ford
#54. The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
Woodrow Wilson
#55. How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain - prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth, science, religion - should ever have gained ground in the political world?
Frederic Bastiat
#56. The earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.
Adolf Hitler
#57. The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#58. Sometimes you have to go above the law.
Fawn Hall
#60. Don't preach the law message and expect people to be saved.
Paul Silway
#61. An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
Anthony Trollope
#62. A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
Brigham Young
#63. On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
Ted Cruz
#64. I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.
Milton Friedman
#65. He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but was incapable of boldly overstepping the law, and so he is not a man of genius.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#67. The law of getting results says; never leave the place of your decision without taking specific steps directed toward its fulfillment.
Sunday Adelaja
#68. What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
Catherine Booth
#69. It matters that there's diversity on the court. I think it makes for better lawmaking, because you have people with more diverse range of judgment and who are going to make a better decision on the law.
Rachel Maddow
#70. The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
Vince Vaughn
#71. The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#73. Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
David Gemmell
#74. Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Thomas Francis Meagher
#75. It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto-it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
Edward Coke
#76. Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme
George Washington
#77. [W]hat with the hours dedicated to the law and those given to dining out or entertaining friends at home, with an occasional evening at the Opera or the play, the life he was living had still seemed a fairly real and inevitable sort of business.
But Newport represented the escape from duty ...
Edith Wharton
#78. Exactly fourteen minutes behind schedule I walked into the law offices of Dewy, Cheatum and Howe.
Gemma Halliday
#79. If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
Matt Taibbi
#80. I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.
Robert Kiyosaki
#81. The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
Winston S. Churchill
#82. The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.
Thomas Cooper
#83. A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.
Marc Morial
#84. I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
Eric Holder
#85. We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
Lucy Stone
#86. According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#88. With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
#89. The law is not a checklist we keep; it is a benchmark we fail.
Timothy Keller
#90. The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.
Mark Twain
#91. We were the standard, the hope, and the law.
J.J. McAvoy
#92. Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.
Karen Traviss
#93. There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
Charles Buck
#94. It was against the law to Taser someone in the head because it would have them in a vegetable state for the rest of their life or kill them.
Amanda Lee
#95. In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
Joseph Stalin
#96. It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.
Cat Stevens
#97. Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
Stephen Breyer
#99. On Harpy's Drive we passed a row of trees, each one with its trunk unnaturally bloated and covered with black fuzz. I had no idea what the fuzz did, but we steered clear of it. The law of navigating post-Shift Atlanta was simple: if you don't know what it is, don't touch it.
Ilona Andrews
#100. The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated - I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .
Alain De Botton
