Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Goodall

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

Jane Fonda

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

Jan Schakowsky

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

Jamie Dimon

I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Blaise Pascal

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Blaise Pascal

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

Blaise Pascal

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Blaise Pascal

Law, without force, is impotent.

Blaise Pascal

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

Blaise Pascal

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Billy Bob Thornton

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Bill Hicks

Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.

Bill Hicks

Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?

Ludwig von Mises

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

Ludwig von Mises

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

Charles Spurgeon

If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

Dennis Prager

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

Denis Healey

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

Demosthenes

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Denis Hayes

Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.

Denis Diderot

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Dean Koontz

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Dean Koontz

As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather... the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

Dan Aykroyd

One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement -- I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.

Damon Lindelof

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

Craig Ferguson

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.

Craig Ferguson

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Craig Ferguson

It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.

Elizabeth Strout

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.