Quotes About Law

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.

Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice].

Ius est ars boni et aequi [Legal justice is the art of the good and the fair].

De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles].

Fiat justitia ruat coelum [Let justice be done though heaven should fall].

Habeas corpus [You are to produce the person].

The formulation I presented should not diminish our determination to control external circumstances to the advantage of individuals and society, or our resolve to develop, invent, or perfect the cultural instruments with which we can make the world better: ethics, law, art, science, technology.

It is against every law of the spirit world that one person can assume responsibility for another's wrongdoing.

The entropy of a closed system never decreases. Every process must by law decay.

The entropy of a closed system never decreases.

total entropy of any system, said Dr. Hauptmann, will decrease only if the entropy of another system will increase. Nature demands symmetry.

If you are a law unto yourself, obeying the promptings of your pleasure within a state-sanctioned playground, you are no citizen but a subject, or a slave, both to your passions and to the dictates of a state which men no longer govern.

Cicero had lived through terrible times and his fundamental aim was to make sure that they never returned. He stood for the rule of law and the maintenance of a constitution in which all social groups could play a part, but where the Senate took the lead according to ancestral tradition.

In the months that followed he brought a rapid succession of cases to court—as he recalled, "smelling somewhat of midnight oil.

the constitution's various parts were so mutually interdependent that reform within the rules was next to impossible. AS a result, radicals found that they had little choice other than to set themselves beyond and against the law.

Then his colleague Pedius won approval for a bill that made Caesar's killing a crime

the Roman state was remarkably nonbureaucratic; with no police force

judiciary, it was simply not equipped to execute large numbers of its citizens. The task had to be privatized.

Charles le Mesurier was quite a formidable opponent and he wouldn't have hesitated to bring the full force of the law against us if we'd crossed the line.

It's been shut down now, part of a brilliant scheme to close half of London's police stations and reduce uniformed officers on the street that has seen a surge in knife crime and made it impossible to use a mobile phone without the risk of it being snatched by thieves on motorbikes.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

I was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work.