Quotes about law
law mind desire
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. Orison Swett Marden
law obstacles investment
We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment. Olusegun Obasanjo
law sky voice
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law taste easy
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law rights unqualified
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law ideas style
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law has-beens
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law logic court
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law justice court
This is a court of law, not a court of justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law sawdust ifs
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
law
Necessity has no law. Oliver Cromwell
law people states
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. Nursultan Nazarbayev
law political competition
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status. Mason Cooley
law poverty wealth
Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey. Mason Cooley
law common-sense giving
Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense. Mason Cooley
law remember forget
Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are. Mason Cooley
law brain free-will
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. Marvin Minsky
law acting limits
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. Martin Van Buren
law president republic
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. Martin Van Buren
law people unions
The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law. Michael Gove
law promise democracy
The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered. Michael Gove
law tests bangs
No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang. Michio Kaku
law people important
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce. Michel Foucault
law giving justice
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court. Michel Foucault
law trying floating
We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV. Michael K. Powell
law ethics
Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows. Michael Josephson
law profound body
The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible. Marie Stopes
law needs debt
We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem. Mark Zandi
law people freedom-of-speech
If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation. Mark Zuckerberg
law errors would-be
It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don't know what is going through the [Obama] administration's thought process on 'don't ask, don't tell.' It would be appropriate for them to say 'the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we are not going to seek further review of that.' Ted Olson
law people insane
How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless. Ted Nugent
law support abiding
Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration. Ted Nugent
law america immigration
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package. Ted Nugent