Law Quotes

The law has no power over heroes.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Law is a bottomless pit.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.