Law Quote by Fred Rodell Download Open image “Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them” — Fred Rodell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devotion People Law Law and lawyers Laws Laws Stronger People Live Religion Stronger Stronger Devotion
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content. — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key to what… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
![“Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].” quote by Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b9/baruch-spinoza-1338_appetite_laws-which-can-be-broken-without-any-wro_1425059.jpg)
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![“[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.” quote by Abul A'la Maududi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/704/abul-a-la-maududi-51903_function_islam-leaves-no-room-of-human-legislatio_886.jpg)
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
