Quotes about law
law people important
We don't talk about sources and methods. Don't talk about ongoing intelligence operations. I know there's speculation. But it's important for the American people to understand that I will use my powers to protect us, and I will do so under the law, and that's important for our citizens to understand. George W. Bush
law discovery originals
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. George Stigler
law democracy investing
If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them. George Soros
law care health-care
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
law states institutions
The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
law competition survival
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. George Reisman
law profound wickedness
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep. George Orwell
law religion atheism
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. George Carlin
law feelings cop
Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.
law two half
A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?
law sides advantage
The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected. Frederick Douglass
law moral action
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. George Edward Moore
law secret shadow
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows. Fernando Pessoa
law people president
Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them. Ferdinand Marcos
law branches language
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. Ferdinand de Saussure
law differences facts
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.
law reason-why language
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
law order effort
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. Felix Adler
law use logic
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents. Felix Frankfurter
law guilt enforcement
Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.
law two body
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
law feet facts
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
law feelings reason
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
law understanding tools
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
law sometimes above-the-law
Sometimes you have to go above the law. Fawn Hall
law government justice
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. Ezra Stiles
law consciousness mechanic
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. Eugene Wigner
law way consciousness
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
law way physics
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
law miracle language
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
law judging construction
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Francis Bacon
law understanding mind
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.
lawlessness borders trump
To every American, he [Donald Trump] is saying to them, "You elect me and we're going to fix the lawlessness at this border." Jeff Sessions