Ambiguity Quote by Thomas Hobbes

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the…

— Hilary Mantel

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

— Learned Hand

In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent…

— Clifford Allbutt

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those…

— George Savile

If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.

— Werner Erhard

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

— Anonymous

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

— Chaim Weizmann

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

— Kathy Acker

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

— Massad Ayoob

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

— Charles Macklin