Law Quotes
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The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
Stella Benson -
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
Ernest Istook
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It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
Elizabeth Lesser -
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
Richard Feynman -
Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.
Stephen Fry -
Those who fit in neatly at church, those who are hyper-focused on the “law” are told to repent, but the sinners, tax collectors, and prostitutes are invited to sit down for dinner, to share a glass of wine, and to build a friendship.
Benjamin L. Corey -
That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.
Judith Butler
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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.
Nick Harkaway -
So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.
Emil Brunner -
Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
Joseph Prince -
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
Rudyard Kipling -
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
Hillary Clinton -
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
Thomas Sowell
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I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
Scott Turow -
Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.
Benjamin Wittes -
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
Seneca the Younger -
As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.
Eric Holder -
Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
Gautama Buddha -
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.
John Calvin
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To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
Ernest Holmes -
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
Martin Luther -
It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.
Edward Jenks -
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
Thomas Sowell