Law Quotes · Page 182

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

— Aristotle

Companies should not need a law on the books to force them to alert consumers when data breaches occur.

— Josh Shapiro

Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.

— Violet Bonham Carter

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

— Imran Khan

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.

— Zig Ziglar

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

— William James

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness

— Aeschylus

Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.

— Trevor Paglen

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only…

— Antony Flew

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are…

— Francis Bacon

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those…

— Salman Rushdie

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should…

— Thomas Jefferson

The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to…

— Shepard Fairey

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law…

— Gregory Bateson

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct…

— Orson Pratt

It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time…

— Charles Krauthammer

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the…

— Alan Greenspan

I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight…

— Bhagat Singh

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“In this loose structure law was weak, unpopular, and diverse. The people preferred to be ruled by custom, and to settle their…

— Will Durant

My background is such that I am uneasy about religious laws, I think there's always a real danger when you start appealing…

— Sadakat Kadri

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders…

— David Mitchell

I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd…

— Kimberly Bryant

Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

— Horace

The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.

— Samael Aun Weor

What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Life is a court, just make sure you'ar all set right to face the judgement.

— Treezy Lunar EMG

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

— Rahm Emanuel

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.

— Henry Norris Russell

“Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.”

— Francis Bacon

Due to enhanced freedom to police, the law and order situation in the state has improved.

— J. Jayalalithaa

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

— Anonymous

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

— Ludwig von Mises

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

— Pauly Shore

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

— Dora Russell

My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.

— Richard Cordray

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

— Tom Colicchio

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

— Isabel Paterson