Law Quotes · Page 186

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

— Edward Snowden

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

— Shane Claiborne

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

— Walter E. Williams

Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

— Ed Koch

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

— Learned Hand

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.

— Robert Breault

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what…

— Anonymous

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New…

— Thomas Paine

What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then…

— Ted Cruz

Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time,…

— Matt Mullenweg

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK,…

— Franklin Foer

The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey;…

— John Stott

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men…

— Robert Byrd

If confirmed by the Senate to serve on the Supreme Court, I will keep an open mind in every case and always…

— Brett Kavanaugh

In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws…

— Chuck Wendig

The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived…

— Peter Kropotkin

In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own.…

— William Pickens

Donald Trump said that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation. Now, here's what that means. It means you would have…

— Hillary Clinton

The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in…

— David Malpass

Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole…

— Arthur Eddington

“The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

— Matthew Heineman

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

— E. W. Howe

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

— Mitch McConnell

After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.

— Andrew Yang

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

— Johan Cruijff

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to…

— Carlton Cuse

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

— Benjamin Franklin

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

— Marc Maron

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

— Hank Johnson

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you…

— Shelby Steele

The future is wide open. I may actually go back and get that law degree someday.

— Gretchen Carlson

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

— Kobe Bryant

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

— Billy Joel

I don't care what's legal and what's not. I'm going to play the way I play.

— Brian Urlacher