Quotes About Law

Si yo quisiera ser justo, sería juez.

Como dice el camarada Stalin, donde hay un hombre puede haber delito.

un Estado social y democrático de derecho, una democracia plena y avanzada.

They had used the law to abuse the law.

Anyone who goes to law puts himself in the hands of an unscrupulous ring of bandits and thugs who milk both parties as hard as they can until one of them has to pay. If one allows for the stupidity and prejudice of judges, conceit and idleness of barristers, and diffuseness of English law, neither side can have a more certain chance of winning a legal action than on a tossed coin, which is a much cheaper way of settling things.

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

Servitude to law is the hatred of Heaven.58 Only self-love is the eternal all-pleasing, which is achieved by meditation on this radiant self which is mystic joyousness.

When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.

What people do, and what they desire in their hearts, determines what level of the ladder they are on. Do they trust in God or the arm of flesh? Do they love God or the lusts of Babylon? Do they observe God's law and word or the commandments of men? Do they release others from oppression or oppress others?

40 percent of arrests for drug possession in this country are for a drug that 19.8 million of us have used in the past month.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

It is the goal of law to protect the vulnerable against the predator and the exploiter, but the law cannot eradicate evil from the human heart.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

What?" she said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable under his scrutiny. She knew it was silly. He'd seen her at her absolute worst. "You just look so... cute," he said. "Clearly breaking the law excites you.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man: so that as we are to obey His law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe His word, though we find a reluctation in our reason.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

This is no new description of human nature. For eighteen hundred years Christendom has been amazed at the description in St. Paul of the law of his members warring against the law of his mind. Expressions most unlike in language, but not dissimilar in meaning, are to be found in some of the most familiar passages of Aristotle.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder to prove, but the damages are enormous.

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.

We need law enforcement as the ultimate deterrent to stop irresponsible and rash young people from making mistakes that will harm others and themselves. Put bluntly, we need them to be scared of getting caught and of getting punished.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.