Law Quotes · Page 134

When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires.

— Rick Santorum

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

— Stella Benson

Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies.

— The 48 Laws Of Power

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

— Evelle J. Younger

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

— Pablo Picasso

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

— Marco Rubio

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

— Richard Bach

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but…

— Khalil Gibran

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be…

— Cesare Beccaria

When law enforcement violates departmental policies or operates outside of its certified training, it should not be insulated from liability to the…

— Cal Cunningham

“No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you…

— Samuel R. Delany

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric…

— Alfred Korzybski

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all…

— John Stuart Mill

My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my…

— Dan Gable

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only…

— Anonymous

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a…

— Alexander Hamilton

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,…

— William Blackstone

“THIS LAW THAT YOU HAVE so admirably described defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to…

— Daniel Quinn

I think a lot of people are trying to scare immigrants. But in reality, they have nothing to fear. You know, people…

— Marine Le Pen

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never…

— Ayn Rand

“As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things.…

— Ernst Jünger

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,…

— Howard Zinn

“Feel sorry for anyone who thinks what they think is right should be some universal law”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

— Steve King

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

— Joe Manchin

“Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.”

— Arcesilaus

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

— Eric Greitens

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

— Eugene Wigner

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

— Ann Coulter

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

— Les Dawson

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

— Shawn Amos

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

— Dario Fo

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

— Randall Terry

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.

— Tina Yothers

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

— Anthony Burgess

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

— Ayn Rand