Quotes About Law

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men.

This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.

I was twenty-nine years old when I died. Died; I use the term loosely. I was murdered, but within the dictates of the law and with the full approval of the king, even though he was barely eighteen years at the time.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

God was not say, 'I'm giving you these commands, and by keeping them you may become my people.' He was saying, 'I'm giving you these commands because you are my people.' The law tells us how people who belong to God ought to live.

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.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other.

The biblical way to express God's love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law—see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ.

There are two things that need to be taken away. First the lies and this government which needs to follow the law and imprison those implicated in the coup. The chiefs are being used just like those that have been made to believe that there is $6million in the bank for them. This Bill was pushed by the SDL party, the very same people that supported what happened in 2000 and there are opportunists seating in the council looking to mislead the council.

Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?

The Bill will legitimise the 2000 coup and will weaken the law and order agencies. All the good work of rebuilding Fiji to what it is today will be undone. The freeing of anyone (even if their crimes are politically-motivated) will show to the world that we are a nation that condones law breakers. It also means that we support terrorists as the Police Commissioner has commented.

It is not easy to bring about the death of the entire race of men, and the law is there; but one may, with patience, exterminate the human ants one by one.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. EDMUND BURKE

Cáin Adomnáin (The Law of Adomnán) A man must not touch a woman against her will. Even if rape does not occur, there are still penalties to be paid: For touching a woman inside her girdle: ten ounces of silver or ten milch cows For kissing a woman against her will: the full honour-price of her father or husband For shaming a woman by lifting her dress: six ounces of silver or six milch cows

God hates sin not just because it violates his law but, more substantively, because it violates shalom, because it breaks the peace, because it interferes with the way things are supposed to be.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.

I flattered myself by thinking that, if faced with such a circumstance, I would respond within the letter of the law; but passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.

I guess we are back to you. Know your rights?" "Yes, but it is the wrongs that keep getting me into trouble, Officer.

Capital punishment is an extreme sanction that would perhaps have been suitable for this most extreme of crimes, but we make mistakes, and taking another life due to human error is the worst we can do in a society based on law. And even if we get it right, killing the killer is not going to bring back the victims.

Feeling he'd captured the throng, Trost decided to get literary. "Salus populi suprema lex esto." She looked at me. "What the fuck was that?" "Cicero—the welfare of the people is the ultimate law." Vic studied the telejournalists, all of them looking a little perplexed. "Think they'll subtitle him?