Quotes about law
law mind about-yourself
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently. Leonard Orr
law practice court
It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law. Lee Kuan Yew
law enemy libel
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
law dating giving
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. Lawrence Durrell
law benefits poor
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. Larry Elder
lawyer
I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything! Larry David
law justice cowardice
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. Kurt Huber
law punishment freedom-of-speech
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
law plain-language people
People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience. Neil Postman
law-of-attraction different sowing
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. Stephen Covey
law judging people
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. Vaclav Havel
law ideas honor
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. V. S. Naipaul
law opposites action
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
law people globalization
It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. Tarja Halonen
law phones tire
Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire. Sophie Kinsella
law support
Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them. Sophocles
law facts duty
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
law people broadway
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. Stanley Tucci
law practice common-sense
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue. Sophie Swetchine
law ham sandwiches
A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted. Sol Wachtler
law
Is everything right because the law allows it? Solomon Northup
law justice slavery
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;
law numbers speech
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior. Stanley Fish
law swans house
There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan Stephenie Meyer
law usa broken
Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody. Marco Rubio
law people acting
Well, when people talk about interrogating terrorists, they're acting like this is some sort of law enforcement function. Law enforcement is about gathering evidence to take someone to trial, and convict them. Anti-terrorism is about finding out information to prevent a future attack so the same tactics do not apply.
law class people
I want people to make a lot more than $9 - $9 is not enough. The problem is you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
law usa agency
USA Freedom Actdid, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law - and other intelligence agencies to quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists have been calling.
law mind citizens
If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth. Marcus Aurelius
law evolution tendencies
The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
law police uniforms
A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law. Marc Morial
law perfect desire
We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. Thomas a Kempis
law self-reliance sacred
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson