Law Quotes · Page 187

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

— Charles Manson

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

— Douglas Hofstadter

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Linda Ellerbee

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

— Louie Gohmert

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

— John Milton

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

— Martin Schulz

“The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.”

— John Frohnmayer

“To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a…

— Nick Harkaway

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so…

— Adam McKay

The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such…

— Joseph Stalin

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and…

— Walter Cronkite

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should…

— Al Sharpton

Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for…

— Robert Reich

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of…

— John Hutton

Immigration law's already settled. That's why we have people known as illegal immigrants, because the law is very clear. They're not being…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Krylenko: We care not about any other law. There is no law here but Soviet law. When that law comes into conflict…

— Paul Gabel

Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong…

— Carl Jung

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could…

— John Stuart Blackie

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage,…

— Winifred Holtby

I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified.…

— Albert Einstein

Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another.…

— L. Neil Smith

We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one…

— Thom Tillis

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be…

— Mark Knopfler

A grass court can become confusing unless you don't allow it to.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.

— Catherine Jinks

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

— Immanuel Kant

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.

— Albert Parsons

“but already there were so many laws that a man was either a lawbreaker or a hypocrite.”

— Theodore Wheeler

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

— Bill Shorten

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

— Anonymous

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

— Abraham Lincoln

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

— William Shakespeare

I think I always naturally lead on the court by just working.

— Malcolm Brogdon

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

— Roseanne Barr

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

— Clarence Darrow

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

— John Archibald Wheeler

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to…

— Barry Goldwater