Law Quotes · Page 136

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

— Sydney J. Harris

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

— Mark Twain

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

— Michel de Montaigne

“I never violate my oaths or my codes... Only international laws.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

— Confucius

In Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, those who disrespect the law will feel the weight of that very same law.

— Jair Bolsonaro

The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

— George Herbert

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

— Walter Wager

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a…

— Harry Mulisch

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by…

— Paddy Chayefsky

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care…

— Thomas Aquinas

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better…

— Allen W. Wood

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we…

— H. L. Mencken

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights…

— Harry S. Truman

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and…

— Andrew Sullivan

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our…

— Michael Bloomberg

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of…

— Voltaire

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our…

— Francois Magendie

While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality…

— Dacia Maraini

I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're…

— Michael Franzese

“Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself…

— Lamb Of God

“I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

— William E. Gladstone

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

— Aeschylus

“It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.”

— Peter Lake

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

— Jeffery Deaver

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

— Kiran Desai

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

— Bertrand Russell

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

— Rick Santelli

As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there…

— Frederick Lenz

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

— Theodor Herzl

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

— Alice Cooper

“Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

— David Hare

'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

— Tom Price

Law 8: Make other people come to you; use bait if necessary.

— The 48 Laws Of Power

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

— Lance Armstrong