Law Quotes

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

I don't really know why I went to law school.