Law Quotes · Page 76

“The law of unintended consequences rules, often with deadly silence.”

— Richard B. McKenzie

The common law is nothing else but statutes worn out by time

— Russell Baker

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others”

— Peter Thiel

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

— Henry David Thoreau

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

— Desmond Tutu

If you want to see law and order, then come to Uttar Pradesh.

— Yogi Adityanath

When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain…

— Ken Cuccinelli

Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.

— Amber Heard

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

I've long favored smart judicial-selection reform - every member of my court does - and every legislative session, reform measures are filed...…

— Don Willett

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form…

— Robert Kennedy

It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through…

— Christopher Darden

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

— Stephen King

Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the…

— Mike Colter

The criminalization of file sharing is pathetic. It's so pathetic, it's almost funny. Imagine if the radio people would have lobbied for…

— Lexi Alexander

They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust…

— John Ralston Saul

In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American…

— John O. Brennan

I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how…

— David Josiah Brewer

This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the…

— Aleister Crowley

This killer [in Orlando] was interviewed by the FBI three times and I'm not going to second guess what career law enforcement…

— Hillary Clinton

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is…

— Anonymous

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

— Kimberly Bryant

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church…

— Jessica Hahn

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

— Chris Grayling

Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.

— Ken Schwaber

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

— Mark Steyn

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

— Mark Twain

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

— Randall Terry

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

— Randall Terry

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

— Paul Davies

Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.

— Mihai Eminescu

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

— Zephyr Teachout

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

— Ayn Rand

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

— Tim Soutphommasane

“What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless?”

— Brandon Sanderson