Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Mae West

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Madonna Ciccone

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

Lyman Trumbull

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

Lyman Beecher

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Lyman Abbott

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

Lydia M. Child

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Lucretius

All things obey fixed laws.

Lucretius

I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.

Louis L'Amour

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Louis Farrakhan

We have to make a distinction between members of the Jewish community who sincerely are trying to follow the laws, statutes and commandments of God in their covenant relationship with Him, but among them are those who say they are Jews and they are not. And this is why the scripture refers to them as the Synagogue of Satan because their work is an evil work. They are doing exactly what Satan is supposed to do - which is to spread evil, not to contain evil to himself but to spread evil to others and make others deviate from the laws, statutes and commandments of God.

Lou Barletta

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Michel de Montaigne

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Michel de Montaigne

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

Michel de Montaigne

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Michel de Montaigne

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Michel de Montaigne

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Michel de Montaigne

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Michel de Montaigne

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Michel de Montaigne

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Michael Sandel

The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.

Michael Newdow

One day I was just looking at the coins is what brought this up. I saw "In God We Trust" on my coins. I said, "I don't trust in God," what is this? And I recalled there was something in the Constitution that said you're not allowed to do that and so I did some research. And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit. It's a cool thing to do. Everyone should try it.

Mark Twain

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Mark Twain

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

Mark Twain

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

Mark Twain

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Marianne Williamson

We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.

Marian Wright Edelman

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Maria Cantwell

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.