Laws Quotes · Page 28

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad…

— Plautus

“To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.”

— Anthony de Mello

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do…

— Lee Child

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be…

— Mark Twain

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will…

— James Anthony Froude

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

— Ben Okri

“No one is quite what he seems, Niall," he said. "That is one of the laws of life.”

— Charles Brady

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is…

— Thomas Day

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates…

— Vint Cerf

“Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are…

— Socrates

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting…

— Dan Quayle

Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them…

— Shereen El Feki

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the…

— John Marsden

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

— Samuel Richardson

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri.

— Josh Hawley

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

— Thomas Huxley

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

— David Gross

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

— Anonymous

I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

“The law wasn’t a piece of wood to be carved by cutting away pieces. It was a house that you built piece…

— Victor Methos

“Space and time emerge from the laws rather than providing an arena in which things happen.”

— Lee Smolin

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by…

— Demonax

I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

— George Carlin

Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.

— Reed Hundt

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

— Clarence Darrow

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

— R.J. Rushdoony

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

— Harry Crews

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

— Learned Hand

As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a…

— Kat Timpf

“Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

— Robert Owen

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

— Sierra D. Waters

“there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life.”

— Three Initiates

“No law against throwing a coat in the canal, is there?” “I would have thought so, yes.” “Well—who knows. Not very widely…

— Donna Tartt