Law Quotes · Page 120

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

— Bob Dylan

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

— Richard Ingrams

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

— Horace

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

— Isaac Asimov

My sister-in-law is so skinny that she has a striped dress with only one stripe.

— Phyllis Diller

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks.

— Megyn Kelly

When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look…

— Edward Snowden

There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is…

— Stendhal

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject…

— Neil Cross

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people…

— Edna Buchanan

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most…

— Zephyr Teachout

Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may…

— Catherine Ponder

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

— Dan Brown

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told…

— Hesham Qandil

We become a Co-worker with God at every step of the spiritual path. This is a universal law. There is great hope…

— Harold Klemp

I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States…

— Thomas Jefferson

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s…

— Steven Chu

We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a New World Order. A world where the…

— George H. W. Bush

The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that…

— Albert A. Michelson

I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other…

— Abraham Lincoln

God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any…

— William S. Burroughs

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

— Hans Kung

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

— William Barclay

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

— Thomas Paine

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.

— Giovanni Giolitti

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

— Elbert Hubbard

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

— Anne Lamott

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

— Rod Parsley

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

— Kevin Bales

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it

— Anonymous

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers, with just my law clerks, in isolation.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

— Pat Conroy

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow,

— Joyce Meyer

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

— Otto von Bismarck