Law Quotes · Page 86

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

— Kurt Gödel

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

— Stephen Colbert

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

— Adolf Hitler

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

— William J. Clinton

“All that is necessary is for the conqueror to establish a degree of law and order under which others can feel secure.”

— Thomas Sowell

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

— Ralph Peters

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

— Lee Kuan Yew

Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.

— Wynton Marsalis

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a…

— Jim Ramstad

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow…

— Leland Stanford

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English…

— Edward Jenks

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life…

— Henry David Thoreau

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

— Anthony Daniels

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a…

— Jonathan Swift

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may…

— George P. Shultz

The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the…

— Henry Hazlitt

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any…

— Clarence Darrow

There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I…

— Mel Gibson

“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our…

— Samuel Butler

As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is…

— Alexander H. Stephens

“Law school, as he told it, was largely a matter of poring over judicial opinions. “Basically, you read these things without any…

— Anonymous

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.…

— Joseph de Maistre

“Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in…

— James Q Whitman

But when General Ziaul Haq introduced the strict blasphemy - 295 A, B, C - of Pakistan's penal code, then from 1986…

— Shahbaz Bhatti

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

— Edward Gibbon

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

— Greg Iles

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

— Chief Joseph

“I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation”

— Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it's a different mentality.

— Beppe Grillo

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

— Martin Luther

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

— Loretta Lynch

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

— Sterling W Sill

The most fundamental principle of the law is that it must apply equally to everyone.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

— Jean Anouilh

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

— Paul Dickson

If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.

— Alistair Begg

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

— Otto von Bismarck

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“An exception to the law is a mother distinction of all distinctions; it endorses dishonesty and unfairness too.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

— Pamela Yates