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Quotes About Law

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.
~ Fred Rodell
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
~ Safra A. Catz
Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
~ Alain Robert
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV
~ Debra Messing
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.
~ Mark Steyn
I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.
~ O. J. Simpson
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
~ Ovid
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
~ Rudolf Clausius
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
~ Stephen Johnson Field
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
~ W. S. Gilbert
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
~ George J. Mitchell
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
~ Gerald R. Ford
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
~ Banksy
Because of the Law of Attraction, each of you is like a powerful magnet, attracting unto you more of the way that you feel at any point in time.
~ Esther Hicks
A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."
~ Frank Carson
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
~ Jose Padilha
The time has come for professional jurors.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.
~ Kip Thorne
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
~ Linus Torvalds
For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.
~ Wayne LaPierre
Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.
~ Alfred Sutro
There was a law against Luke.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Ogni legge trasgredita troppo spesso è cattiva; spetta al legislatore abrogarla o emendarla, per impedire che il dispregio in cui è caduta quella stolta ordinanza si estenda ad altre leggi più giuste.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar