Law Quotes · Page 193

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression,”

— K'wan

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

— Julius Streicher

I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

— Henny Youngman

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

— George W. Bush

“Police Internal Affairs departments are so corrupt that you cannot believe anything that they say.”

— Steven Magee

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

I feel that the law should ensure speedy justice to girls, be it from poor, rich or backward communities, and for this,…

— Anurag Thakur

Our police in the law enforcement officers are doing great work but still, we need to have support so that our officers…

— John E. James

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the…

— William Shakespeare

ESG investing poses particular concerns under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa, the federal law governing private retirement plans.

— Eugene Scalia

I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as…

— Lenny Bruce

I was just about to sue the BBC for unlawful dismissal when I ran into Michael Foster, Chris Evans's agent, who said…

— Angus Deayton

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would…

— Helen Reddy

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn…

— Tariq Ramadan

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify,…

— Epictetus

Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course…

— Jason Mraz

After I got my law degree and business degree, I went to work for my family, and I spent two years at…

— Penny Pritzker

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the…

— Michael Salter

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,…

— Anonymous

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has…

— Trevor Phillips

A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically…

— David Petersen

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.

— Waylon Jennings

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

— F. Lee Bailey

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

— Lloyd Cutler

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

— Duane Chapman

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on…

— Pierre Corneille

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

— Anonymous

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

— Plautus

Like every other profession that can be improved, law enforcement can also be improved.

— John Bel Edwards

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

— Anonymous

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

— Herbert Hoover

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of…

— Thomas Huxley

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

— Mark Twain

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

— Otto von Bismarck

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

— Roger Ebert

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

— Stephen Covey