Law Quotes · Page 140

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

— Dixie Lee Ray

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

— John Ruskin

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

— George T. Conway III

“Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that?”

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you [Hillary Clinton] want to change the laws, you've been there a long time, change the laws.

— Donald Trump

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

— Antonin Artaud

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful…

— Kevin Warsh

If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will…

— Charles Spurgeon

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law…

— Michel Foucault

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the…

— Constance Baker Motley

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the…

— Baruch Spinoza

Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are…

— Edward Tufte

“If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power…

— Scott Klusendorf

There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law…

— Noam Chomsky

God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being…

— Anonymous

I didn't specifically set out to write a legal thriller, I was just incredibly intrigued by the story in The Beach House…

— James Patterson

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and…

— William Jennings Bryan

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against…

— Vaclav Havel

Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners…

— Dexter Romweber

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should…

— Philip Pullman

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law…

— Aristotle

“The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable.”

— Marie C. Malaro

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

— William Penn

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

— William Howard Taft

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

— Ryan White

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

— L Ron Hubbard

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

— Jerry Zucker

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“If we want people to have respect for the law, then we must first make the law respectable, son.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

— David Clement-Davies

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

— John F. Kerry

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.

— Greg Boyle

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

— George Bernard Shaw

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

— Thomas Jefferson

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

— Walter F. Mondale