Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Assange

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

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.

Ivan Illich

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

Isaiah Berlin

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Isak Dinesen

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

Isak Dinesen

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

Ichiro Ozawa

The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.

Ida B. Wells

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Ida B. Wells

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Gloria Naylor

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same.

Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Giordano Bruno

There is no law governing all things.

Giordano Bruno

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Harry S Truman

[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They are entitled to counsel. They are entitled to fair treatment from the police. The law enforcement officer has the same duty as the citizen-indeed, he has a higher duty-to abide by the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws. You yourselves must be careful to obey the letter of the law. You yourselves must be intellectually honest in the enforcement of the law.

Harry S Truman

This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

J. P. Morgan

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

J. K. Rowling

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.

J. K. Rowling

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

H. G. Wells

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

H. L. Mencken

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

H. L. Mencken

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

H. L. Mencken

It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

H. L. Mencken

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us...

H. L. Mencken

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

H. L. Mencken

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

Gunnar Myrdal

It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.

Greg Iles

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Grace Hopper

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!