Law Quotes · Page 194

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

— H. L. Mencken

I am for an immigration policy that's welcoming and upholds the law.

— George H. W. Bush

The world is the court of God. The criminal is God; the punisher is God; man serves the sentence.

— Kedar Joshi

There is no such thing as a dumb question, only dumb law students.

— Anonymous

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

— Earl Wilson

“We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.”

— Philip K. Howard

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they…

— K. Eric Drexler

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly…

— Aristotle

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale.…

— Gail Collins

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for…

— Peter Thiel

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate…

— Anonymous

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

— Luther Strange

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to…

— Swami Vivekananda

I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and…

— Chris Pavone

We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they…

— George A. Smith

Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent…

— Antonin Scalia

Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law…

— John Henry Wigmore

I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred…

— Susan B. Anthony

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head…

— Andrew Solomon

Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the…

— Freeman Dyson

It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in…

— Kabir Bedi

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

— Allen Toussaint

We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.

— Donald Trump

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

— Thomas Sowell

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

— Ralph Nader

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and…

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“There’s lots of law these days,” she interrupted, “but not much justice.”

— Dean Koontz

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

— Max Beckmann

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

— Hugh Leonard

Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.

— Charles Brockden Brown

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

— Tacitus

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.

— Carrie Nation

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

— Albert Einstein

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

— Mario Cuomo

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

— Calvin Coolidge

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

— John Adams