Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Stevenson

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

Bryan Stevenson

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Bryan Adams

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

Cesare Beccaria

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Catherine Booth

If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.

Catherine Booth

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

Catherine Deneuve

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

Camille Paglia

In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.

Cal Thomas

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

Cal Thomas

Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.

Caitlin Moran

I am pathetically law-abiding.

Bryan Fuller

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

Catherynne M. Valente

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

Caspar David Friedrich

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

Will Rogers

We are always saying let the law take its course, but what we mean is 'Let the law take our course.'

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

William Shakespeare

I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.

William Shakespeare

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

William Shakespeare

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.

William Shakespeare

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Mark Cuban

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

Charley Reese

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

Charley Reese

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

Charles Koch

As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise, laws that govern human wellbeing. It seemed to me that these laws are fundamental not only to the wellbeing of societies, but also to the miniature societies of organizations. Indeed, that is what we found when we began to apply these principles systematically at Koch Industries. Through our observation of how they could create prosperity in an organization, I began to systematize my beliefs into Market-Based Management.

Charles Lindbergh

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

Charles Krauthammer

It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.

Charles Krauthammer

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Ai Weiwei

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Ai Weiwei

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

Bob Woodward

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Bob Menendez

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.