Quotes about law
law direct-action growth
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth. Charles Darwin
law desire facts
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.
law rewards england
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. Charles Babbage
law light government
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit from his ingenuity, whilst he who unravels the laws of light and vision, on which multitudes of phenomena depend, shall descend unrewarded to the tomb.
law justice examination
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
law break-through choices
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.
law reason reasonable
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
law force
Law, without force, is impotent.
law imagination earth
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.
law giving grace
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
lawyer
I always wanted to play a lawyer. Billy Bob Thornton
law stories crime
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. Bill James
law issues people
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.
law natural made
Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become. Bill Hicks
law pot profit
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?
law fundamentals customers
The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right. Ludwig von Mises
law government long
[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
law sorrow cost
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
law fire broken
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?
law numbers rights
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. Ayn Rand
law negative logic
you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.
law america people
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.
law wish may
Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
law purpose return
It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.
law competition contradiction
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
law purpose committed
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
law jeans facts
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do. Bertrand Russell
law two connections
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction.
law justice judging
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go. Benjamin Cardozo
law
Law never is, but is always about to be.
law competition finals
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
law moral individual
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. Benjamin Disraeli
law age boots
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.