Law Quotes · Page 187

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

— Clara Jeffery

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

— Thomas Hardiman

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

— Walter Savage Landor

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

— Anonymous

According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine's. Period.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

— Richard Perle

I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was…

— Vicky Krieps

Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and…

— Harry Reid

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic…

— Mo Ibrahim

I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got…

— Mohammad Amir

What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that…

— Joseph Dunford

At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.

— Barack Obama

I'm not the same person on the court. I'm different when I'm off the court. Off the court, I don't need to…

— Luol Deng

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's…

— Desiderius Erasmus

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be…

— Immanuel Kant

Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites…

— Baruch Spinoza

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial…

— Victor Cousin

I didn't quite know whether I was writing for the non-Muslim or the Muslim, and at the end of the day I'm…

— Sadakat Kadri

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question…

— John Bates Clark

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Each day in Texas, law enforcement officers keep us safe from dangers we don't have to worry about.

— George P. Bush

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

— Otto von Bismarck

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can…

— Abraham Lincoln

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

— Luther Strange

The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire.

— Neville Goddard

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

— Walter Scott

“Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.”

— Henry V. O'Neil

“The statement 'I thought he was reaching for a gun' is a police officers license to kill.”

— Steven Magee

I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.'

— Juliet Landau

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

— Antonin Scalia

“Delays in the completion of legal process need to be made accountable as a crime itself.”

— Bhuwan Ribhu

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

— George Washington

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

— Norman Davies

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

— Bill Nye