Law Quotes
8230 Law quotes by 3806 unique authors
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new…
— Hannah Arendt
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
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The law is reason, free from passion.
— Aristotle
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
— Aristotle
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
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When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
— Lance Armstrong
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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down…
— Joe Arpaio
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
— Julian Assange
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have…
— Julian Assange
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
— Kate Atkinson
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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
— Saint Augustine
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
— Mahmoud Abbas
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher,…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn…
— Michele Bachmann
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I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
— Michele Bachmann
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and…
— Michele Bachmann
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The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years…
— Michele Bachmann
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
— Francis Bacon
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
— Michael Badnarik
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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