Quotes About Law

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and throughly worth living.

You're very ugly for fairies, she said. Aye, well, the ones you gen'rally see are for the pretty flowers, ye ken, said Rob Anybody, inventing desperately. We're more for the stingin' nettles and bindweed an' Old Man's Troosers an' thistles, okay? It wouldna be fair for only the bonny flowers tae have fairies noo, would it? It'd prob'ly be against the law, eeh?...

They tended to wield the huge blunt ax of the law in circumstances that required the delicate scalpel of common sense. [...] Policeman with their great big boots were not required here on a night like this. It would be a good idea to put a thumbtack under the ponderous feet of Justice.

A word writ doon can hang a man

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

I know that as you gentlemen view such things, such conduct has no excuse for being. One may be the victim of an internal conflict between two illicit moods, yet nevertheless, as the law and the church see it, guilty of sin and crime. But the truth, none-the-less, is that they do exist in the human heart, law or no law, religion or no religion, and in scores of cases they motivate the actions of the victims. And we admit that they motivated the actions of Clyde Griffiths.

I want to do a film like 'Jolly LLB' or something in that space.

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people.

How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

I'm not a judge.

As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best.

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you would certainly never, ever criticize them based on their ethnic background.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.

Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.