Quotes about law
law choices betrayed
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law. Ursula K. Le Guin
law special provocative
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. Vladimir Putin
law hype age
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. William Graham Sumner
law guarantees folly
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
law lord piggy
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill? William Golding
law justice sides
NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail. Xavier Becerra
law important ethics
Ethics are more important than laws. Wynton Marsalis
law tumbling answers
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. William O. Douglas
law silence lips
The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.
law common-sense common
Common sense often makes a good law.
law promise demand
And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you. William P. Young
law independence trying
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
law grace sober
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it. William Penn
law justice cruelty
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
law stories steps
If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it. Zig Ziglar