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Quotes About Law

The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.
~ leno jay ii
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
~ Leo Tolstoy
His law firm's shining brass ERICSSON, WEYMOUTH AND ROTH sign greeted him outside the elevator on the sixty-first floor. At twenty-nine, he'd been the youngest to ever make partner. There was a time he'd wanted, and probably could have gotten, the name Mooney added to that sign.
~ James Patterson
kills a cop, the net gets big and wide. That net
~ James Patterson
Lincoln's) experience as a lawyer compelled him not only to see that there is a principle underlying every phenomenon in human affairs, but that there are always two sides to every question, both of which must be fully understood in order to understand either, and that it is of greater advantage to an advocate to appreciate the strength than the weakness of his antagonist's position.
~ James Russell Lowell
1791 -  The Bill of Rights is ratified
~ James Weber
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
~ Jane Addams
the world is not their's, nor the world's law
~ Jane Austen
The harmony of natural law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
~ Jane Goodall
Why don't you see if you can google that Einstein quote while I feed him. It's in his book The World As I See It." While Jane was gone, I looked it up. And there it was, in the book Jane suggested: "The harmony of natural law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
~ Jane Goodall
The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. [...] Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.
~ Jane Hamilton
You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms. Joe Morelli
~ Janet Evanovich
This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe. Ranger
~ Janet Evanovich
There's no such thing as semi-legal.
~ Janet Evanovich
So, is it against the law to shoot someone after he's already dead?" "Yes, it's against the law." I made a small grimace. "I thought it would be.
~ Janet Evanovich
Smith & Wesson .45 revolver.
~ Janet Evanovich
police station.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't want to get married unless they change the marriage laws. You should have to sign a marriage contract for no more than five years, with an option to opt out.
~ Gilbert Arenas
The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.
~ Chen-Ning Yang
Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.
~ Eric Schneiderman
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
~ Leon Kass