Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Jerry Bridges

The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

GG Allin

I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

Tom McCall

I do not condone any violation of the law whether it be one person or ten thousand.

Hunter S. Thompson

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Hunter S. Thompson

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Hunter S. Thompson

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Hu Jintao

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

Howard Staunton

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.

Honore de Balzac

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Honore de Balzac

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Honore de Balzac

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Honore de Balzac

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Honore de Balzac

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Ice T

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

Ice T

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

Ice T

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

Ice Cube

Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK, cops gotta get pealed.

Francis Quarles

Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

Ian Hislop

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Hugh Laurie

Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.

Horace

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

Horace Mann

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

Horace Mann

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Gary Sheffield

If I have to, I will. I'll do whatever the law (requires) me to do, but other than that, it's a waste of my time.

I don't think there is any question that the law would prohibit it.

Jalal Talabani

I am very sorry that some colleagues, some lawyers -- because I too am a lawyer -- were killed,

I don't think, under the law, I'm disqualified.

How do you spell 'disaster'? This looks like one of those real Murphy's law seasons.