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Quotes About Law

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should kno sumthing ov law--if he knows enuff tew keep out ov it, he iz a prety good lawyer.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
own single law; Hei! be amazed, grow not enraged! thou in thy
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Where there is law there is injustice
~ Leo Tolstoy
And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law—the law of love and self-sacrifice taught us by Him who lovingly suffered for mankind though He Himself was God. What had she to do with justice or injustice of other people? She had to endure and love, and that she did.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If there be a single law governing the actions of men, freewill cannot exist, for man's will would be subject to that law.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Where there's law there's injustice,
~ Leo Tolstoy
And what is justice? The princess never thought of that proud word "justice." All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law—the law of love and self-sacrifice taught us by Him who lovingly suffered for mankind though He Himself was God. What had she to do with the justice or injustice of other people? She had to endure and love, and that she did.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Submission to the law created by men makes one a slave; obedience to the law created by God makes one free.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Reason discovered the struggle for existence and the law requiring that we oppress everyone who impedes the gratification of our desires. That is reason's conclusion. But loving one's fellow man reason could not discover because it is not reasonable.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Moses gave us a law, but we received the true faith through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God or will ever see God, only his son, who is in the Father, has shown us the path of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Where there's law there's injustice," put in the little man.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She did worse than break the law, she broke the rules
~ Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.
~ Leon Garfield
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
~ Leon Jaworski
We may set it down as a historical law: fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where the conservative labor parties prevented the proletariat from utilizing the revolutionary situation and seizing power.
~ Leon Trotsky
It is very true that one cannot always go by the principles of Marxism in deciding whether to reject or to accept a work of art. A work of art should, in the first place, be judged by its own law, that is, by the law of art. But Marxism alone can explain why and how a given tendency in art has originated in a given period of history; in other words, who it was who made a demand for such an artistic form and not for another, and why.
~ Leon Trotsky
Establish your law in this walled place. Let nine men come to lift me into their prayer so that I may whisper with them: Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever and forever.
~ Leonard Cohen
He fastened his collar to the darkness so he couldn't breathe, and he opened the book in anger to make his payment to the law.
~ Leonard Cohen
Scattava subito, pregiudizialmente, quali che fossero le persone che le rappresentavano, una irriducibile disparità di punti di vista tra le due istituzioni: l'arma dei carabinieri, il corpo di polizia. Un lungo, storico contenzioso li divideva: e tutti i cittadini che ci cadevano in mezzo finivano col dibattervisi drammaticamente
~ Leonardo Sciascia
Wissen Sie, weshalb man zwischen uns Verurteilten eine Zelle unbelegt lässt? Damit wir kein Komplott schmieden, uns selbst abzumurksen. Das würde gegen das Gesetz verstoßen [...]. Ein sehr schwerwiegender Verstoß, allerdings! In diesem Fürstentum wird es als niederträchtige Handlungsweise erachtet, den Versuch zu unternehmen, das Exekutionskommando auszutricksen.
~ Les Edgerton
he formed a lifelong commitment to the distinction between "justice" and "the law.
~ Les Standiford
Under the English common law doctrine known as jure uxoris, upon her marriage a woman's property and titles held in her own right became her husband's as well. Therefore, it was not a stretch of the imagination to fear that any man Mary married would become king of England in fact as well as in name.
~ Leslie Carroll