Law Quotes
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.
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Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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The law is reason, free from passion.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
