Civil society Quote by Margaret Hoover

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

— Sonia Sotomayor

“If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule…

— Dale Carpenter

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

— Massad Ayoob

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of…

— Edmund Burke

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

— Barbara Tuchman

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

— Bill Mollison

Deanell Tacha and I decided to write an editorial, because both of us have had experiences in countries where the rule of law is…

— Martha Minow

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come…

— James E. Rogers

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

— Orson Welles

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“ Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the…

— William Sloane Coffin

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

— James F. Cooper