Law Quotes · Page 135

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

— Su Shi

This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

— Aeschylus

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

— Walter Lippmann

“Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.”

— Cormac McCarthy

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

— Chris Matthews

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

— Aleister Crowley

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

— Murray Rothbard

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

— David Dinkins

The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end…

— Michael Gove

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it…

— Bertrand Russell

We've got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are…

— Louie Gohmert

Which [the cyber hacking] is why one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to…

— Donald Trump

People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews…

— Sarah Silverman

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with…

— David Davis

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state…

— Antonin Scalia

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

— Eric Butterworth

We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream…

— Henry Giroux

Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West…

— Walter E. Williams

Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a…

— Dwight Yoakam

With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could…

— Kenneth Clarke

Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the…

— Michelle Alexander

My comprehensive health care plan will lower costs, strengthen Medicaid, and codify protections for people with pre-existing conditions into state law. That…

— Andy Beshear

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are…

— Benjamin Cardozo

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

— Lou Holtz

“significant component of the federal law of tax-exempt organizations is the body of tax law concerning the”

— Anonymous

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

— Anonymous

“No, Mrs. Peters doesn’t need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff’s wife is married to the law.”

— Susan Glaspell

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

— Anonymous

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

— John Walker Lindh

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

— Voltaire

The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

— Roy Moore

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that…

— Charles L. Allen

A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

— Elton John

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

— Les Dawson

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

— Brigham Young

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

— Fred Rodell