Law Quotes · Page 139

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

— Idi Amin

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

— Tony Hillerman

I thought of running for office when I was in law school, but I wanted to work on human rights.

— Kerry Kennedy

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

— Naomi Wolf

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

— Mitt Romney

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

— Thomas Jefferson

A lot of countries break (or go against) the international law.

— Noam Chomsky

In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws…

— Florence Nightingale

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Magnitsky law has proven to be a powerful tool. While asset freezes and travel bans against corrupt officials may sound incidental,…

— Bill Browder

As judges, we are public servants. And it is up to the people to determine what the structure and form and function…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well,…

— Conan O'Brien

“He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.”

— Rev. B. Margoliouth

For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical…

— Adolf Hitler

Discrimination in public benefits is also perfectly legal. Under federal law, people convicted of drug felonies are deemed ineligible even for food…

— Michelle Alexander

“Once, for Paul, as for his contemporaries, Israel’s election and the demand of the law stood side by side in unresolved tension.…

— Mark A. Seifrid

A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of…

— Sai Baba

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

There is no question in my mind that if we summon our resources, both our leadership resources and all of the tools…

— Hillary Clinton

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors…

— Denis Diderot

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who…

— John Locke

But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

— Paul Samuelson

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

— Lawrence Lessig

A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

— Bob Thaves

What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity,

— James Shaffer

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

— Tom Shadyac

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

— Lydia M. Child

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

— Ai Weiwei

“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.”

— J.S.B. Morse

My ultimate goal is a statewide non-discrimination law with broad protections, and I will keep striving for it.

— Roy Cooper

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

— Waylon Jennings

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

— Carol Moseley Braun

I came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.

— Alice Cooper

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

— Paul Broun

The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

— Catherine Deneuve