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Quotes About Law

Toda la vida normal, Peter, consciente o no, se resiste al dominio. Si el dominio es por parte de un inferior, o de un supuesto inferior, el resentimiento se hace más fuerte. Físicamente, y hasta cierto punto mentalmente, un robot, cualquier robot, es superior a un ser humano. ¿Qué lo hace esclavo, entonces? ¡Sólo la Primera Ley! Porque sin ella, la primera orden que daría usted a un robot le costaría la vida.
~ Isaac Asimov
Stored energy had a way of leaking, no matter what was done to stop it. That was another aspect of the all-embracing, irresistible second law of thermodynamics.
~ Isaac Asimov
Teresa said that until men gave birth and put up with husbands, as women do, they should not have an opinion - let alone decide on - abortion and divorce. She didn't believe that men had the right to an opinion, much less to pass laws on the female body, since they'd never know the exhaustion of gestation, the pain of labor, and the eternal bondage of motherhood.
~ Isabel Allende
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
~ Isabel Allende
That fairy tale that all humans are equal before the law and in the eyes of God is a lie, Camilo. I hope you don't buy into it. Neither the law nor God treats everyone the same.
~ Isabel Allende
Si lo que quieres es andar armado, entre ser delincuente o ser policía, es mejor ser policía, porque tienes impunidad.
~ Isabel Allende
Life was beautiful, and America was truly "the land of the free and the home of the brave," a land where someone like Gregory could become President; all you had to do was stay pure of heart, love God and your mother, be forever faithful to one girl, respect the law, defend the weak, and scorn money—because heroes never expected to be compensated.
~ Isabel Allende
La muerte con dignidad es un derecho humano, pero la ley y el establecimiento médico a menudo nos obligan a vivir más allá de la dignidad.
~ Isabel Allende
Pedro Tercero tuvo que renunciar a sus paseos al pueblo, porque su padre lo requería a su lado. Lo secundaba de mal humor, haciéndole notar que se partían el lomo por volver a poner en pie la riqueza del patrón, pero que ellos seguían siendo tan pobres como antes. —Siempre ha sido así, hijo. Usted no puede cambiar la ley de Dios —le replicaba su padre.
~ Isabel Allende
Teresa said that until men gave birth and put up with husbands, as women do, they should not have an opinion about—let alone decide on—abortion and divorce. She didn't believe that men had the right to an opinion, much less to pass laws on the female body, since they'd never know the exhaustion of gestation, the pain of labor, and the eternal bondage of motherhood.
~ Isabel Allende
Procuró atribuir su malestar al momento del sermón del padre Restrepo cuando la apuntó para referirse a los fariseos que pretendían legalizar a los bastardos y al matrimonio civil, desarticulando a la familia, la patria, la propiedad y la Iglesia, dando a las mujeres la misma posición que a los hombres, en abierto desafío a la ley de Dios
~ Isabel Allende
for defending gangsters, and
~ Isabel Allende
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.
~ Scott Turow
I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero.
~ Frank Abagnale
The government believes that we will need to take the step of enshrining the Paris goal for net zero emissions in U.K. law. The question is not whether but how we do it.
~ Andrea Leadsom
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
~ Simon Cowell
No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement. It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.
~ Stephen Miller
There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe; there's selective application of the rule of law. Patrick Chinamasa, who is the minister of justice, destroyed the independent judiciary.
~ Roy Bennett
Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.
~ Sergei Lavrov
The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
~ Danica Patrick
As an actor, he should be an extra in police line-ups.
~ Robert H. Gurney
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
~ Robert Rice
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
~ H. L. Mencken
The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
~ John Marshall