Quotes About Law

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What

What made Newton's postulate nevertheless a modern Law of Nature, was his mathematical formulation of the mysterious entity to which it referred. And that formulation Newton deduced from the discoveries of Kepler - who had intuitively glimpsed gravity, and shied away from it. In such crooked ways does the tree of science grow.

The growing sensitivity of people to any sort of open and frank discussion of important issues is no service to civilisation, let alone law and order. I wrote a play about a man who happened to be a salesman, and several organisations of sales people flew to arms. Now it is the lawyers. If I am to back away from these objections you must surely see that I shall be forced to write about people with no occupation whatever.

I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now

PROCTOR: If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!

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alteration (i.e. change that takes place according to causal law) always concerns a particular part of space and, simultaneously and together with this, a particular part of time. Consequently, causality unites space with time.

Si en los pequeños asuntos cotidianos, las pequeñeces de la vida... un hombre es desconsiderado y sólo busca aquello que le resulte ventajoso o conveniente, sin importarle los derechos de los demás; si se apropia de lo que pertenece a todos por igual, puede usted estar seguro de que no hay justicia en su corazón y de que sería un villano de talla mayor si no fuese porque la ley y la fuerza le atan las manos.

We are not to be in bondage to rules, even spiritual ones. "If you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law" (Gal. 5:18).

Mientras otros chicos de su edad aprendían otras cosas, Estha y Rahel aprendieron cómo la historia negocia sus condiciones y ajusta las cuentas a aquellos que violan sus leyes. Oyeron su ruido sordo y nauseabundo. Olieron su olor y nunca lo olvidaron.

What we need are people who are prepared to be unpopular. Who are prepared to put themselves in danger. Who are prepared to tell the truth. Brave journalists can do that, and they have. Brave lawyers can do that, and they have. And artists—beautiful, brilliant, brave writers, poets, musicians, painters, and filmmakers can do that. That beauty is on our side. All of it.

the 36 percent increase between 2004 and 2007 in lawsuits against attorneys for legal mistakes—the most common being simple administrative errors, like missed calendar dates and clerical screwups, as well as errors in applying the law.

Ronald Dworkin

LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just!— — —Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

It's a law of survival, isn't it?—to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. (John Galt)

They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody.

The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.

It was "the duty of every subject, for conscience's sake, to submit to his authority, while he acts according to the law." Should he imperil the natural right and liberties of his subjects, however, "he overthrows the very design of government, and the people are discharged from all obedience.