Law Quotes

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.