Quotes About Law

As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause.

There is no such thing as a conscience that is (quantitatively) more or less good, depending on how close I come to ethically fulfilling the Law (Mark 10:20). There is only that conscience which is either blinded by Satan or comforted by God.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

THE colonial history of Maryland offers two points of especial interest. Maryland was the first proprietary government in America, and she lays claim to the distinction of having been the first state where religious toleration not only prevailed in practice, but was established by law.

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth.

Law never made men a whit more just.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

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

If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory; it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres.

a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply.

There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ.

Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private industry. They make it possible for private industry to function in an atmosphere of law, order, freedom and peace. But their justification consists in the utility of their services. It does not consist in the "purchasing power" they possess by virtue of being on the public payroll.

The well-known kosher has come to mean 'legitimate' or 'good quality', although it of course retains the fastidious sense 'acceptable according to the rules of Jewish dietary law as executed under rabbinical supervision'.26

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

Balance-of-power diplomacy was less a choice than an inevitability. No state was strong enough to impose its will; no religion retained sufficient authority to sustain universality. The concept of sovereignty and the legal equality of states became the basis of international law and diplomacy. China, by contrast, was never engaged in sustained contact with another country on the basis of equality for the simple reason that it never encountered societies of comparable culture or magnitude.

China does not want revolution; it does not want war or revenge; it simply wants the Chinese people to "bid farewell to poverty and enjoy a better life" and for China to become—in contrast to the taunting rejectionism of Mao—"the most responsible, the most civilized, and the most law abiding and orderly member of the international community."32

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

The best way to treat a bad law is to enforce it strictly.

Through the Reformation, the mechanical relation of nature and grace was superceded by an ethical one, so that the restoration of the law of God in every sphere of life became the concern of the believer.

A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.