Quotes About Law

it does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.

No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people

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

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

A God possessed of free will is lesser than a God with a single law. In the same way that a concept is all the more true when it need not transform itself when faced with every individual case. God's perfection is proven more by the impossibility of miracles than the possibility.

In the garden of Paradise, who was the monster and who was not? between the houses and apartments, and in the elevated spaces between the high buildings, in that hanging garden - who is, and who is not? how long can I stand not at least knowing what is looking at me? the raw roach is looking at me and its law sees mine

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law — for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . the renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my own unknown law, and if I don't carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Advocacy is not adherence or principle if it knows no law.

The constitution is designed for equal protection of rights. Taxation is designed for equal distribution of rights.

There is no crueller tyranny," said Montesquieu, "than the one exercised in the shadow of the law, and with the colours of justice.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

Looked at from a spiritual standpoint, our discomfort in any given situation provides a signal that we are out of alignment with spiritual law and are being given an opportunity to heal something. It

nuestro malestar en cualquier situación es un aviso de que no estamos alineados con la ley espiritual y que se nos está proporcionando la ocasión de sanar algo.

Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!

The people should fight for their law as for a wall.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Wer die rechtsstaatlichen Grenzen von Fall zu Fall verschieben will, der hebt sie auf.

Das Feindstrafrecht betrachtet sein Subjekt als Sphinx: halb Mensch, halb Tier.

Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert.

Angst macht süchtig nach Strafrecht.

Nicht nur Menschen, auch Rechtsgrundsätze wurden [...] von den Trümmern der Twin Towers erschlagen.