Law Quotes · Page 125

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

— Horace

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

— Frank Knight

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

— Joe Strummer

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

— Howard Zinn

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

— Calvin Coolidge

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

— Robert Owen

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

— Matthew McGrory

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

— Albert Einstein

In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter…

— Jean Kerr

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best…

— Thomas Paine

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

— Michael Badnarik

“Though shalt have a code of your own laws that govern you according to how you yourself perceive the world and though…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order…

— John F. Kerry

The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction that says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you…

— Rhonda Byrne

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence…

— Aristotle

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and…

— Harriet Martineau

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it…

— William Saroyan

My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion,…

— Akira Yoshizawa

Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is…

— Antonin Scalia

Many will be affected with some gross sins of theirs against the law, who never see the venom of their unbelief of…

— Thomas Boston

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by…

— Noah Webster

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

— Karl Liebknecht

You might be a redneck if you can't get married to your sweetheart because there is a law against it.

— Jeff Foxworthy

The Knesset is the parliament that passes the most laws in the world. It's a disaster for the business sector.

— Ayelet Shaked

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

— Joey Lauren Adams

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

— Barbara Tuchman

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

— Julius Wellhausen

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.”

— Christopher Moore

A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

— Judith Martin

I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.

— Reuven Rivlin

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

— Jack Canfield

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

— Charles Bradlaugh

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

— David Remnick

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

— Eric Holder