Quotes About Law

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

I was a law student when I started acting in plays. I was a real estate lawyer but I continued acting on stage because that is what gave me a lot of happiness.

I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I'll play a lawyer one day - the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life.

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.