Law Quotes
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Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
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The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
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So he's above the law because he's a celebrity or something. Just because you're Russell Crowe doesn't mean you can do whatever you like.
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The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.
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In the whole of geophysics there is probably hardly another law of such clarity and reliability as this—that there are two preferential levels for the world’s surface which occur in alternation side by side and are represented by the continents and the ocean floors, respectively. It is therefore very surprising that scarcely anyone has tried to explain this law.
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What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?
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The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
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A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.
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Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
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It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
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I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed.
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I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.
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Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.
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Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.
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I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.
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A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.
