Quotes About Law

In fact, South Texas and Alaska might be the last places in the country where law enforcement would want to roll up on a property and have a look-see.

A cop with sharp features and sandy blond hair came over and sat down next to Tony. A cigarette dangled casually from his lips, so natural-looking that it seemed like a part of his face.

"One of the laws of nature, Gordon said, is that half the people have got to be below average. For a Gaussian distribution, yeah, Cooper said. Sad, though."

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully constrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)—interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree.

Por ley la gestión de las cocinas (de los reclusorios) debía decidirse por concurso público. En teoría diversas empresas presupuestaban y las autoridades elegían la alternativa más eficiente. Esta versión de cuentos de hadas no se la creían ni las hadas

Dharma, the word at the heart of the epic, is in fact untranslatable. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something to do with it, but they all fall short.

signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act.

Desacuerdo número no: los mexicanos no estamos de acuerdo en cumplir la ley, ni en las leyes que queremos cumplir.

Las leyes están escritas en arena, las costumbres en granito PLATÓN

Ninguna de esas cosas se conseguirá sin la gran asignatura pendiente de la modernización mexicana que es el gobierno de la ley, la aplicación de la ley, la igualdad ante la ley, la vigencia de la ley.

México parece listo para dar el paso, pero no lo está realmente. No está dispuesto, ni en el gobierno ni en la sociedad, a someterse a lo único que puede arbitrar una pluralidad democrática efectiva: el respeto colectivo a la ley.

Lo cierto es que la primera nueva costumbre que el país adquirió fue la de negociar el incumplimiento de sus leyes.

a man killed committing a felony--and bombing and arson ought to qualify for that--is simply bought and paid for; his blood is on nobody's head but his own.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

Given an approximate knowledge of a system's initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system.

Mr. Eben warned Harve that any puppies that had the sheep killer's blood in them were bound to be no 'count by the law of heritage. Bonnie's litter was on the way when the father was killed and Harve believed he could cure the pups of any bad habits. The father had had a lot of courage, a strong heart and a good nose. Maybe the pups would be all right.

The whole country is, and it's sad. Because, before long if the law is not going to do anything about it, people will start taking the law into their own hand. Then there will be a lot of people getting hurt, and then the ones that want to defund the police will be begging for the law to help them.

That's the maxim of the law. Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for one innocent person to be wrongfully condemned.

As I say, they don't teach it at the academy, but you learn it on the job: not every man's death is a crime.

but people forget. Always. It's got to be one of the fundamental laws of the universe.

the FBI's top-ten most-wanted list. Number

The natural gifts of this place, aided by law, politics, and science, could create a stronger, more elite population.

James Patterson