Law Quotes · Page 101

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

— Lewis Carroll

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

— Magic Johnson

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

— Erik Erikson

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

— Shirley Conran

Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

— The 48 Laws Of Power

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men:…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

— Lydia M. Child

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second…

— Joseph Campbell

The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they…

— Patrick Leahy

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that…

— Jack London

Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience…

— Robert Shapiro

Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we…

— Archilochus

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

— Tony Abbott

It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom,…

— Maimonides

People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers…

— S. I. Hayakawa

The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim's data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent…

— Perianne Boring

“A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system…

— Mark Shields

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my…

— Gwenn Wright

Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,…

— William Golding

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

— Ron Wyden

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

— Thomas Jefferson

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

— Aristotle

“There is an undercurrent of intentional meanness in the police.”

— Steven Magee

You know, passing a law is one thing, and certainly I'd love to pass a law that restricts abortion.

— Mark Robinson

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

— Anonymous

“The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

— Samuel Johnson

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

— E. O. Wilson

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As president the law dictates how I do my job. The same law dictates how a judge should function.

— Jovenel Moise

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

— George Eliot

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

— Bruce Springsteen

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

— Scott Turow

You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

— Eric Schneiderman