Law Quotes · Page 80

LAWS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN BUT PUNISHMENT IS THE TOOL USE TO AMEND A BROKEN LAW.

— CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of America.

— Hillary Clinton

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

— Jim Webb

“As soon as a police officer threatens me with arrest, my internal alarms start going off.”

— Steven Magee

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

— Robert Baldwin Ross

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

— Max Anders

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.

— Horace

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

— Derek Bok

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is…

— Al Franken

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one…

— Ramsey Clark

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling…

— Baruch Spinoza

My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by…

— Sally Yates

“You preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs With rights and wrongs and arguments of good, You choke my songs…

— Iris Tree

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just…

— Bashar al-Assad

By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a…

— Frederick Lenz

We all need good laws, and an independent, impartial, and efficient judiciary to verify the constitutionality of those laws.

— Rohini Nilekani

When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

This is a God-given right of any man.Anytime you have a man who is getting lynched, and what are his people supposed…

— Malcolm X

While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and…

— Rick Santorum

One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were…

— Howard Zinn

The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity… The law gives me…

— Charles Bradlaugh

Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

— Neelie Kroes

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

— John Wycliffe

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

— Kin Hubbard

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

— Trey Gowdy

For the provision of God constantly to be at work in our lives we must activate the laws of God.

— Phil Pringle

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.

— Alexander Hamilton

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

— Mahmoud Abbas

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Law enforcement must be guardians in our communities, not warriors against our own people.

— Cal Cunningham

“I’ve come to recognize that questions of law and justice are at the same time questions of power.”

— William T. Vollmann

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

— Cindy Sheehan

South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.

— David Lidington

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

— Joseph Prince

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

— Anonymous

“Hofstadter’s law tells us: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

— Christopher Chabris