Law Quotes
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I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.
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The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.
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I practiced law for 10 years, and I always admired the lawyers who were not afraid to take unpopular cases. And I never had the guts to do that. I was playing it safe. I was trying to make a living. And I just never volunteered for a really tough case, and there were some of them I should've taken. And I admired the lawyers who did.
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The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.
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Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.
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We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
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I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.
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I went to law school to help people.
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The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.
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We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
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'Law & Order' is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn't a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we'd finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.
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Immigration is tough. My daughter-in-law is going through the immigration process as we speak.
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Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they are all comprised in this one word, love.
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
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We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century.
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I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.
