Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Burnet

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

J. William Fulbright

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

George Herbert

The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

George Herbert

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

Georg Buchner

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

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.

Jerry Bridges

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

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.

I could not find the testimony of two of the defendants credible, ... It showed a blindness, which the law does not permit. Some witnesses saw what was going on, realized what was happening. Some other defendants sensed the problem and withdrew.

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.