Law Quotes
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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Shana Alexander
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Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
Martin Luther
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Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law.
John Calvin
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens
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You've got to pay attention to what you're attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you're gonna be attracted to things that are going to be attracted to you, but it literally moves into physical reality with and through you and it does that by law.
Bob Proctor
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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
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The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.
Elvis Costello
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It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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
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That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don’t do as I say I’ll ruin you.
Elena Ferrante
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Thomas More
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We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.
Bill Clinton
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Is it against the law for me to know it?
Haruki Murakami
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
Michel Foucault
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A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old, and so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.
Ben Ames Williams
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Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
Tim Robbins
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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
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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
