It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
At some point, the law has to command respect, and there is a lawful way to change it. — Amul Thapar Copy Share Image
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
“The letter of the law should bend; and this bending should be with the winds of freedom rather than toward the lifelessness… — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model . — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws! — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
“in the course of social evolution, usage precedes law; and that when usage has been well established it becomes law by receiving… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as… — Steven Hatfill Copy Share Image
No law is permanent or steady. The law is not made of steel. The law is made by Parliament. It goes to… — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
We want to make legislation; we want to put laws on women's uteruses and whether or not they can protect themselves from… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“ I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“it seemed clear that these ordinary-looking business-like men are responsible for acts which will remain when their red cheeks and top hats… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
