Quotes About Law

Eight months passed before they were actually charged with murder: That was how long it took to develop the "evidence." In the United States, suspects typically cannot be held more than 72 hours without being charged.

No Trespassing Violators Will Be Prosecuted With the Utmost Rigor of the Law

This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.

The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.

There are crimes that cannot be brought home to their perpetrators. Instance the Rogerses'. Another instance, old Wargrave, who committed his murder strictly within the law.

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.

The judge murmured with a reptilian smile:

The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.

The police, as servants of law, must be of a high order of integrity. For their word is perforce believed by the virtue of their profession.

You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder.

Well, you know, bigamy is bigamy.

I've often noticed that once coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it's some natural law that we haven't found out.

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

It is a universal law that before it disappears, every class must first disgrace itself completely, on all fronts, and that it is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs

There is a Cosmic Law, don't forget! What we Give, is what we Get. So, we Must know that if we Sin, we will Suffer, we will never Win.

There is a Cosmic Law, don't forget! What we Give, is what we Get. So, we MUST know that if we Sin, we will Suffer, we will never Win.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

Le New York Observer s'était déjà demandé s'il serait un jour possible de voir un homme noir libéré sous caution dans le cadre d'un procès pour meurtre, et je devais bien admettre que non.

In fact Yahweh is none other than the God who says "enough." The Law he issues is meant as limitation. The Covenant he concludes symbolically seals this castration.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.