Quotes About Law

Nowhere is this idea of divine revelation so strongly expressed or so clearly identified with the tradition of culture as in the case of Israel. For here the whole social form and historical destiny of the people had been imposed on them by the Word of Yahveh, which was not merely, as in other cases, a sacred tradition of learning, but a way of life embodied in a moral law and a sacred history which set it apart from all the other peoples of the ancient world.

It is a mistake to suggest that the difference between the Old and the New Testament is that the Old Testament taught that salvation came by keeping the law whereas in the New Testament it comes by grace. That is precisely the distortion of the Scriptures that Paul was combating.

To argue that because Old Testament law does not prescribe explicit penalties related to infringement of its economic legislation, therefore modern civil authorities are excluded from any form of intervention in the economic marketplace betrays both the inadequacy of theonomism's preoccupation with penalties and also, in my view, its ideological bias towards unfettered, free-market economic capitalism.

Our psalmists were not Judaizers, nor were they Calvinists, Arminians, Theonomists, Dispensationalists, Legalists or Antinomians. They were worshipping believers, members of a people who knew themselves to be in a unique covenant relationship with the LORD their God, redeemed by God's saving grace, and privileged to have been given a land to live in and a law to live by. Let us, then, do our best to understand and appreciate the law through their eyes.

Thus, the law and the crime became caught in a cycle in which the law facilitated the crime and the crime, in turn, helped institutionalize a form of law with which it could coexist. The losers in this vicious circle were the ordinary people, children, and rebels who have always borne the brunt of tyranny.

Flick beat all but one of the slave labor and plunder charges, because three prominent U.S. judges concluded that the director and owner of a corporation should not be held accountable for slavery and looting by his companies, unless the prosecution could prove that he personally ordered each particular crime to be carried out.

Hackworth focused on what had long been the most active aspect of international law, the impact of war on commercial relations.

The concepts of a "crime against humanity" or of human rights were absent from Hackworth's text. So was any substantial consideration of the possibility that the international community might justly hold a government responsible for atrocities against its own people. He saw heads of state as beyond the reach of international law.

We tend to think the Old Testament ends with the book of Malachi. But Luke 16:16 says, "The law and the prophets were until John," which means that while the final official book of the Old Testament is Malachi, the period of the Old Testament ends with John the Baptist as the last of the prophets under the Law.

Why was the Law given? This is widely misunderstood. The first reason is to provide a standard of righteousness. How do you know right from wrong? By looking at God's standard, not relativism—God makes the rules, which were given to expose and identify sin.

Righteousness can never be legislated. It is a matter of the heart.

Laws are silent in times of war.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)

Ahli hukum tidak bisa menyimpang dari azas hukum. Mereka harus taat pada hukum yang berlaku.

Pero éste es el pacto que haré con la casa de Israel después de aquellos días, dice Jehová: Daré mi ley en su mente, y la escribiré en su corazón;e y yo seré a ellos por Dios, y ellos me serán por pueblo.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The law is a horrible business.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.