Quotes About Law

There are . . . well, always have been, people in positions of power and influence who will bend and use the law to suit themselves, for their own gain. Those are the kind of wrongs we try to expose. And without being too dramatic, that's what drives us as journalists . .

I remember abortion being legal in the United States

Apparently, as historian Paul Kramer dryly observes, "for California officials and in the eyes of the law, there is little difference between disability, immorality, and Chinese femininity.

Los autoritarios necesitan a gente que promueva los disturbios o desencadene el golpe de Estado. Pero también necesitan a personas que sepan utilizar un sofisticado lenguaje jurídico, que sepan argumentar que violar la Constitución o distorsionar la ley es lo correcto.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

President Putin has said courts may now mandate treatment for addicts

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. ROMANS 8:1 – 2

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. PSALM 1:1 – 3

What's more, divorces there could be granted on the grounds of simple infidelity, while in America that only counted if the extramarital affair had taken place in the marital home.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

Ce n'est pas à lui qu'elle se soumet, c'est à une loi indiscutable, universelle, celle d'une sauvagerie masculine qu'un jour ou l'autre il lui aurait bien fallu subir. Que cette loi soit brutale et sale, c'est ainsi.

Et, comme d'habitude, il était impossible de déterminer si l'avortement était interdit parce que c'était mal, ou si c'était mal parce que c'était interdit. On jugeait par rapport à la loi, on ne jugeait pas la loi.

The difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago Law School for people that had Obama as their constitutional law professor.

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

There are cops who be racially profiling.

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

I'm sure a majority of farmers do their best to follow safe practices, to read carefully chemical labels, to follow the law, and to try and ensure that they are making both safe and profitable decisions for their business.

If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

As the law catches up and the battle between corporate profits and social good plays out, we need to be careful not to be lulled into a false sense of privacy.

There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.