Quotes About Law

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.