Law Quotes · Page 78

“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”

— Otto von Bismark

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

— William McIlvanney

“Justice is not simply argued — it is meticulously prepared, strategically presented, and fearlessly defended.”

— Millennium Chambers

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

— Sophy Burnham

Gilani should be loyal to the country, the Constitution and law and not to Zardari alone.

— Nawaz Sharif

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

— James F. Cooper

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

— Andrew Thomas

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

— George H. W. Bush

Thousands of dedicated men and women in the intelligence community and law enforcement are working tirelessly to prevent the subversion of our…

— Robert C. O'Brien

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I did GCSE's and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I've…

— Alun Wyn Jones

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or…

— James McGreevey

“in my four months of legal cramming I’d learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox”

— Frank W. Abagnale

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies,…

— John O. Brennan

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

— Tom Tancredo

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can…

— Simon Wiesenthal

...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this…

— Werner Gitt

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians…

— Antonin Scalia

To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a…

— Adam Sedgwick

Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can't…

— Leonard Horowitz

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble…

— Jodi Picoult

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the…

— Aristotle

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

— Paul Simon

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I just want to be perfect on court, but is not possible. The perfect doesn't exist.

— Simona Halep

You sign a contract for a reason. You're bound by law to do what you say you're going to do.

— Quinton Jackson

“Police routinely shooting mentally challenged people is a very disturbing trend.”

— Steven Magee

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

— Jean-Louis Gassee

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

— Shannon Miller

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

— Vladimir Putin

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

— Henry Miller

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

— Albert Einstein

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

— Maria Mitchell

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

“What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law?”

— Jodi Picoult

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

— John Grisham

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

— Robert Mueller