Quotes About Law

The law itself is accused of iniquity, and impeached, like the orators of Athens when they have persuaded the assembly to pass unjust decrees.

On a similar principle they consider that to know right and wrong is nothing clever, because what the laws speak about it cannot be hard to understand. But this is not justice, except incidentally: it is when actions are done or awards are made in a certain way that they become just.

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Law is mind without reason.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.

I think when you look at the quarterback position, and this mastery of the craft we talk about, it really is an advanced degree. It's like going to med school, or law school, or getting your PH.D. It really is that type of educational effort, on the field and off the field.

In our system, criminal justice isn't the quest for revenge. It's the quest for truth, evidence and facts, and the use of that truth as we fairly apply our laws.

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.

Electing radical reformers as district attorneys is huge. It's essential.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself by speaking up.