Law Quotes · Page 92

Criminals are just regular people who didn’t have time to read all the laws.

— Mariska Hargitay

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country.

— Chad Wolf

Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

— John Selden

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

— Henry David Thoreau

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the…

— Norman Mailer

“I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.”

— Lizzie K. Foley

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

— David Mamet

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow…

— Umar

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her…

— John Shimkus

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be…

— Alberto Gonzales

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a…

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

— Noah Webster

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are…

— Max Planck

When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in…

— Stephanie Ruhle

Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people…

— Gough Whitlam

In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law…

— Walter Russell

We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as…

— Dallin H. Oaks

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a…

— Gustave Flaubert

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will…

— Swami Vivekananda

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

— Archibald Cox

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

— Samuel Johnson

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

— Edward Bennett Williams

To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

— Dillon Burroughs

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

— Wendell Phillips

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

— John Cornyn

There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

— Frederick Lenz

No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.

— Tom Steyer

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

— Charles Lindbergh