Quotes About Law

La ley se ha hecho pura y exclusivamente para explotar a aquellos que no la entienden, o a quienes la miseria impide respetarla. Y quien quiera obtener su mendrugo de esa explotación, debe atenerse estrictamente a la ley.

La legge è fatta esclusivamente per lo sfruttamento di coloro che non la capiscano, o ai quali la brutale necessità non permette di rispettarla.

La science ne connaît qu'une loi : la contribution scientifique. (Scène 14, Andrea, La Vie de Galilée, Bertolt Brecht )

We believe in no wisdom that improves on Nature's laws, and one of those laws, written on our hearts, is that sorrow shall tread on the heels of sin. We are conscious that men should learn to welcome this law, and not to shrink from it. To fly from the suffering following on broken law is the last thing we should do.

The feudal system did much, of course, to perpetuate the subjection of women, it being to the interest of the lord paramount that the fiefs should descend in the male line in those rough ages, when wars and civil feuds were almost perpetual, it was inevitable that the sex with the biggest body and strongest sinews should have the upper hand; the pity is that English gentlemen to-day are content to allow the law to remain unaltered, when the whole face of society has changed.

When shadows take flight and the moon turns away from the stars, the raven delivers divine law

I shot the sheriff?

southern newspaper asked, "What is the difference between a Yankee violating the fugitive slave law in the North and a southern man . . . violating the law against the African slave trade in the South?

Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down an 8–1 decision that found the 1875 Civil Rights unconstitutional.

Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep. If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Thou shalt not steal.

A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."

Galatians 3:22

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids.

I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages.

But not in Mississippi. Though police

That's my business." "Not if it involves breaking the law. Not if you don't want me to cloud up and rain all over you.