Law Quotes · Page 198

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

— David Clement-Davies

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“If we want people to have respect for the law, then we must first make the law respectable, son.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

— Nick Cave

If everything can be settled by the word sorry, then why would law and police exist?

— Anonymous

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

— Catharine MacKinnon

“Economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. —Franklin D. Roosevelt”

— David Cay Johnston

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

— Cecil B. DeMille

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver…

— Fred Upton

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for…

— Louis de Bernieres

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

— Sam Brownback

My first real television-watching experience was when I watched 'L.A. Law,' like, at 10 o'clock Thursday nights with my parents. They would…

— Jonathan Levine

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of…

— Richard Lamm

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is…

— John Harrison

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's…

— Jefferson Davis

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies,…

— John O. Brennan

One of the things that I noticed in my private law practice was the fact that so many people had gotten ripped…

— Roy Cooper

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the…

— Vaclav Havel

True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to…

— Franz Bardon

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I…

— Hayden Panettiere

The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

— Walter F. Mondale

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

— Thomas Jefferson

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.

— Greg Boyle

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

— George Bernard Shaw

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

— Maya Harris

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

— Agatha Christie

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

— Richard Schickel

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

— Beverly D'Angelo

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

— George Stigler

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

— Maria Edgeworth

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

— Isabel Paterson

As long as U.K. remains member of the E.U., it should respect the E.U. law.

— Frans Timmermans

“Those who only have the right to judge are those in court and those in contest.”

— Caroline de Leon

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

— John Arbuthnot