Law Quotes
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We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began.
Wallace Stevens -
This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because they opposed Obamacare - and they started the targeting the very month, March 2010, that Obamacare came into law - expects us to believe it is the work of two rogue agents in Cincinnati.
Jim Jordan
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That axiom of Metaphysicians which is termed the principle of contradiction and which affirms that it is impossible for anything to possess a quality, and in the same time not to possess it, is a consequence of the fundamental law of thought, whose expression is x²=x.
George Boole -
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
William Lewis Trogdon -
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
Douglas Hofstadter -
Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs.
Kristen Soltis Anderson -
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
John Ashcroft
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I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.
Curtis Stone -
Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
Orson Scott Card -
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons...
George Bernard Shaw -
Much as he is opposed to law - breaking, he is not bigoted about it.
Damon Runyon -
We are a country based on the rule of law.
Kirstjen Nielsen -
From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.
Kenneth Frampton
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I've got that hands-on experience with federal judges and how important it is to have judges like Neil Gorsuch, who will take a rule-of-law approach to the decision-making process. I think he's eminently qualified.
Luther Strange -
In accordance with international law, those who give such orders should be held responsible, including in a criminal way, ... The international tribunal on the former Yugoslavia should immediately look into this.
Igor Ivanov -
There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial problem with calling people by their real names.
Xavier Durringer -
China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.
Ai Weiwei -
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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I think 'Magneto' is definitely an anti-hero. He's fighting for the right thing, but his methods are far too extreme. He's not above breaking the law, stretching the limits of what is moral and putting evil to work for good.
Cullen Bunn -
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.
Amity Shlaes -
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?
David Fahrenthold -
I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
Andrew Pyper