Law Quotes · Page 127

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

— Albert Camus

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much…

— Daniel O'Connell

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

— Alphonso Jackson

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

— Abraham Lincoln

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

— Walter Savage Landor

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

— Frank Herbert

Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.

— Swami Vivekananda

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

— Aleister Crowley

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to…

— Charles Spurgeon

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him…

— Max Planck

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I…

— Elizabeth Strout

Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do. I like growing so I think…

— Tommy Chong

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see…

— Oscar Wilde

Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind -…

— Ernest Wood

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of…

— Marcel Proust

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible…

— Anthony Kennedy

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and…

— Pope Leo XIII

Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive…

— Marvin Ammori

In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except…

— Newton N. Minow

The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to…

— Trudi Canavan

We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it…

— Mike Huckabee

Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the…

— Daniel Webster

That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances…

— Edwin Meese

You kill the emotion by standardising the behaviours on court. I want authenticity. I want people to be free.

— Patrick Mouratoglou

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

— Janet Frame

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.

— Shannon Bream

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

— Sarah Palin

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

— Ariana Franklin

You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone.

— Ilkin Santak

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

— John Stuart Blackie

“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.”

— John Updike

Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

— Melvin Belli

I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.

— Bob Beckel

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

— Emma Goldman

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

— Mark Lawrence

We cannot allow the Trump administration to invalidate our nation's health care law.

— Jacky Rosen

Without question, Alabama's House Bill 56 is the most comprehensive anti-illegal-immigration state law ever drafted.

— Kris Kobach

My preference is to just be on the court. I just want to play no matter where that is at.

— Paul Millsap