Quotes about law
law people helping
People must help one another; it is nature's law. Jean de La Fontaine
law people agents
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. Grover Cleveland
law civilization class
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.
law government rome
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
law judging problem
The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them. Giulio Andreotti
law slave-girl patriotism
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. Harriet Ann Jacobs
law creative may
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau
law special littles
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases. Harper Lee
law made protect
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious Hugo Black
law people should
Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws. Huey Newton
law people leader
When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. Howard Zinn
law distribution-of-wealth way
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.
law people support
The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.
law criticism firsts
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. Howard Mumford Jones
law luck littles
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. Hosea Ballou
law obedience social
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
law honor remedy
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
law keys excellence
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances. Hannah Arendt
law doe youth
Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed. Guy de Maupassant
law independence stronger
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws. Friedrich Nietzsche
law broken may
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
law essence special
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form. George Boole
law perception objects
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.
law duty jury
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty. George Bernard Shaw
law people use
The criminal law is no use to decent people.
law retail rebellious
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
law knives citizens
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
law practice medicine
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.
law wish firsts
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
law judging finding-yourself
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
law important manners
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
law parent married
I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
law church mosaics
The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament. Gary North