Law Quote by Immanuel Velikovsky

If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

“The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the study, because…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

— George Gaylord Simpson

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a…

— Mark Steyn

“Remember, laws are created by man, and there is nothing as fallible as man.”

— Chris Fraser

“There are no rules. Only principles and natural laws.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

“The Law works in the most mysterious of ways.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr