Quotes About Law

When there was a Congress government in Maharashtra, no one bothered about law and order.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

Vote Leave broke the law. I can say that out loud now. Vote Leave broke the law. But nothing happened.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.

I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers.

If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless, they will have no defence in law at all.

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.

The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.

If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.

We think one of the priorities in Mississippi is not to do what some would suggest, which is to defund the police. Rather, we want to have an initiative to actually fund the police.

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

No law is permanent or steady. The law is not made of steel. The law is made by Parliament. It goes to the people, to the ground. A lot many suggestions come once it is implemented. So many laws have been amended after receiving people's suggestions.

I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.