Law Quotes · Page 154

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

— Vincent de Paul

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

— Ambrose Bierce

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.”

— Swami Vivekananda

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

— Horace Mann

We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.

— Charlie Munger

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill thy Law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow,…

— Augustus Toplady

I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000…

— Malcolm X

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive…

— Judith Butler

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only…

— Clarence Darrow

The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front…

— Bob Proctor

The Republicans suddenly are very concerned about people losing their health coverage! I would believe that they were worried about our well-being…

— Andy Borowitz

“The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.”

— Anatole France

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about…

— Wendy Kaminer

When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists…

— Ahmad Sa'adat

As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other…

— Edward Gibbon

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anthony Weiner deserves to be supported and hopefully he will be mayor of New York one day. I'm serious. He is a…

— Janeane Garofalo

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

— Lenny Bruce

Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.

— Hillary Clinton

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

— John Milton

I thought the sports law sector would be boring, but it was unexpectedly interesting.

— Park Ji-sung

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

— Joni Mitchell

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

— Francis Bacon

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

— Louis XIV

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

— Alan Dershowitz

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

— Lawrence Lessig

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

— Voltaire

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.

— Gautama Buddha

Harvard Law School is great. I'm lucky to be here. It's a really difficult, intense experience.

— Jack Schlossberg

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

— Bill Hicks

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

— Ambrose Bierce

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

— Lamar S. Smith

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

— Leo Tolstoy