Law Quotes
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I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens
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First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
Ezra Stiles -
Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
Sarah Vowell -
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.
Steve King -
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
Albert Camus
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The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -
We should create law based on the God of the Bible.
Sarah Palin -
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More -
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
Ernestine Rose -
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles A. Murray -
Leave it to the Indians to have meditated upon and figured out the laws of the Universe. Leave it to the Americans to either change those laws, have us escape into another Universe with different laws, or create that other Universe if it doesn't exist already !
Gaurav Dagaonkar
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Thomas More -
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.
Richard Feynman -
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel Paterson -
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
Cecil B. DeMille -
I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.
Geert Wilders -
The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.
Ezekiel Hopkins
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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.
Evan Wolfson -
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman Hillard -
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton -
Sometimes when I'm writing a superhero story I wonder if they really have to punch each other in the face. Is that really going to solve anything? I feel the same way sometimes when I watch episodes of Law & Order. I'm like, "Yeah, right. You found the sex offender and now everything is fine." TV is big on closure, but I think closure is horseshit in real life. I'm still haunted by stuff I did in my teen years when I think about it too much.
Ed Brubaker