Law Quotes · Page 194

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

— St. Jerome

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

— Warren Beatty

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

— James Inhofe

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

— Anthony Lewis

“Even the purest of souls get ravished and consumed by the most thirsty quintessential desire to possess power.”

— Sirio Berati

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

— Anonymous

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

— Thomas Jefferson

I feel like when I'm out there, I'm on the court, I just try to figure it out.

— Jayson Tatum

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it…

— Archibald MacLeish

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of…

— Anonymous

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no…

— Mark Shields

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at…

— Andre Gide

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

There is a law of gratitude, and if you are to get the results you seek, it is absolutely necessary that you…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work…

— Dalton Trumbo

“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to…

— Ron Wyden

If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law…

— Tucker Max

The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining…

— David Graeber

Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will…

— Anonymous

The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The…

— Josh Charles

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

States and cities with the most stringent gun laws are the same places where gun crimes run rampant; the truth of the…

— Byron Donalds

I like to slide on a court, but when I slide on grass I never stop.

— Gael Monfils

For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

— Galatians 5:14

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

— David Haye

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

— Joe Satriani

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

— Joyce Meyer

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

— William Kunstler

I educated myself and came back to Miami after law school, got married, and started a business.

— Francis X. Suarez

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

— Enrico Fermi

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

— Terry Goodkind

The cable law. Prasar Bharati. The Broadcasting Bill. These are all overlapping things.

— Sushma Swaraj

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

— Miles Franklin

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

— John F. Kennedy

Domestic violent extremism is not a threat limited to any single law enforcement agency.

— Alex Padilla

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the…

— Aristotle

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

— Oscar Wilde

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

— John O. Brennan