Quotes About Law

God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.

'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled.

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.

When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

The judiciary is peopled by judges who are human, and being human, they are occasionally motivated by considerations other than an objective view of law and justice.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

When an officer of the law detects a vice in himself, he knows enough to start looking for its presence in others.

I live by the law of averages," said Alois. "I prefer to think of the ongoing possibility of profit rather than of the intermittent perils that surround all activity.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

I'm not saying its right to break the law. I'm not talkin about that—but these prisons as they exist are wrong.

They had to recognize, Woods warned, that the law wanted to keep psychopathy and psychosis apart. If the psychopath were ever accepted as legally insane, then crime, judgment, and punishment would be replaced by antisocial act, therapy, and convalescence.