Law Quotes
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What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.
Elvira Nabiullina
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One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.
Margery Allingham
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Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
Orson Scott Card
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It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.
C. S. Lewis
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China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.
Ai Weiwei
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It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey
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The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I think law enforcement should respect their undercover agents and listen to what they have to say.
David Thibodeau
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The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
Hal Lindsey
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It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'
Abraham H. Cannon
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
Bertrand Russell
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As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
LZ Granderson
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A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
Walter Lippmann
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.
T. C. Boyle
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Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma And the law just could not seem to track him down And it served his legend well For the folks, they'd love to tell 'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town.
Billy Joel
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
Alex Cox
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
William Shakespeare
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The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.
Van Jones
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The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
W. S. Gilbert
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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
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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
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
Plato
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The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
Lysander Spooner