Law Quotes · Page 163

Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.

— Arthur Goldberg

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

— Charlie Trotter

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

— Aasif Mandvi

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

— Maximilien Robespierre

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That got thrown out of court are what got me thrown out of school.

— Justin Long

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

— Cynthia McKinney

If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that…

— Laura Wasser

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

— Morris Dees

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use…

— Barton Gellman

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every…

— Charles F. Haanel

Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the…

— Mohammed Morsi

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side…

— Mitt Romney

I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us…

— Óscar Arias

I'm not going to go on this fishing expedition that they want me to, that the Democrats want me to, the president…

— Jason Chaffetz

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the…

— Plato

The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What…

— Ludwig von Mises

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted…

— Edward Snowden

I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like…

— John Brandon

Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth…

— Erich Fromm

I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm…

— James Mattis

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

— Eugene Wigner

I don't have the luxury of ignoring the law and running a program that's unlawful.

— Chad Wolf

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

— Trevor Phillips

I'm capable of doing anything on the court, beating any opponent.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

— Elvis Presley

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men

— Walter Lippmann

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we…

— William J. Brennan

Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.

— Donald Verrilli Jr

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

— Hillary Clinton

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

— Abraham Lincoln

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

— Aaron Burr

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

— John Calvin

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible…Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

— Morgan Freeman