Quotes About Law

Petty theft, murder, forgery, arson, and the abduction of women were all capital offenses, so the death penalty for heresy was neither unusual nor extreme.50

Everything Jacen did to grab power was within the law. There's law, and there's justice, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It's equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.

Then again, Paul had once told her that there was no such thing as coincidence. "The Law of Truly Large Numbers provides that given a large enough sample size, any outrageous thing can happen.

Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.

I was told you take your capital cases seriously down here.

By state law, any unattended death—which is to say a person who dies outside of a hospital or nursing home—has to be investigated

how I longed to find an authority above the nations, a law above all states, capable of giving legal aid to an individual abused and rendered without rights by his state.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state

This law of capitalistic society would sound absurd to savages, or even civilised colonists. It calls to mind the boundless reproduction of animals individually weak and constantly hunted down.24

Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.

la même importance que la loi de la transformation de l'énergie pour les sciences naturelles, lui fournit ici également la clé pour la compréhension de l'histoire de la deuxième République française.

Undoubtedly," it will be said, "religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.

It was now painfully clear to the people that equality before the law did not produce genuine, human equality

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.