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Quotes About Law

We should respect not only the facts but the law. If we do not, then we lay ourselves open to every man's judgment of what may be true or false; and a belief of guilt will become the same thing as proof. There must be something above individual judgment, however passionately felt, or we become barbarous again." "Of course he may be guilty," she said very quietly.
~ Anne Perry
Yet we would never expect law and even extreme social opprobrium to remove from a population jealousy, hatred, greed, sympathy, mirth, possessiveness—the entire palette of human emotions.
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men.
~ Sebastian Junger
Now, she had an innocent client. She hated innocent clients.
~ Selena Montgomery
Do you know why sailors wear gold in their ears?" Uncle asked me. "It was the law, long ago, that a sailor had to have on his person enough gold to bury him should he wash ashore. So the seaside folk wouldn't be out of pocket at the funeral expense.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
~ Seth Lloyd
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
~ Shana Alexander
India's rape law, enshrined in the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, placed the burden of the victim to establish her 'good character' and prove that a rape had occurred, which left her open to discredit by opposing counsel. Many rapes were never reported as a result of the humiliation to which this system subjected the victims.
~ Shashi Tharoor
The imperial system of law was created by a foreign race and imposed upon a conquered people who had never been consulted in its creation.
~ Shashi Tharoor
system and encouraging our clients' friends to intimidate witnesses. More people read the Chronicle than the State Bar Journal, and the mayor
~ Sheldon Siegel
and Money." Judge Tsang's usually stoic bailiff smiled as he swore Archer in. Archer
~ Sheldon Siegel
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with Wendy Hogan, a part-time tax attorney at S&G, and her six-year-old
~ Sheldon Siegel
If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
My narcissism could have turned my eulogy Into Law & Order courtroom testimony. I could've said, I felt safe almost half the time With Mom. She protected me against cruelty Three days a week.
~ Sherman Alexie
Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. I am the power they can't tear down. And my will is law.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You haven't even read me my rights. (Josie) Here's your right. Open your mouth again and I'm going to pull your tongue over the back of your head. (Tee)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.
~ Michel de Montaigne
We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.
~ Nelson Mandela
All statutes to the contrary are revoked.
~ Paulo Coelho
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become things in your life.
~ Rhonda Byrne
As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.
~ Rhonda Byrne