“In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.” — Norris Henderson Copy Share Image
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same. ~Crow — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
“Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed… — Walter Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order?… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. — Ferruccio Busoni Copy Share Image
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another.” — Jerry West Copy Share Image
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and… — Livy Copy Share Image
Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws. — Toni Servillo Copy Share Image
“Though shalt have a code of your own laws that govern you according to how you yourself perceive the world and though… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish… — Plato Copy Share Image
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
“Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal… — David Frost Copy Share Image
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
“We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
