“A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I thought the sports law sector would be boring, but it was unexpectedly interesting. — Park Ji-sung Copy Share Image
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. — John Milton Copy Share Image
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My Democratic colleagues, many of whom hold law degrees, should know better than to intentionally oversimplify court rulings to mislead the public… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
A woman called Rose has written to me every day for the last 15 years. That's dedication. It's not quite fan mail,… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons. — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
Harvard Law School is great. I'm lucky to be here. It's a really difficult, intense experience. — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive? — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts. — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school. — Aja Brown Copy Share Image
The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
