Quotes About Law

Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.

all the topics embraced in the title of the Kronhausens' fine book Pornography and the Law.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

What goes up must come down.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.