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Quotes About Law

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.
~ Anthony Kennedy
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
~ Victor Hugo
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
~ Ron White
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The death penalty experiment has failed.
~ Harry A. Blackmun
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
~ Ian Tattersall
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
~ Yasser Arafat
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
~ Patricia Cornwell
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
~ Cat Stevens
He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!
~ Brian Jacques
I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.
~ Rick Santorum
And who's next, Mr. and Mrs. America, now that the Bill of Rights is no longer the law of the land and the racial haters are running the show?
~ Philip Roth
They are there to uphold the law. There are still good men in this country.
~ Philip Roth
Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.
~ Philip Yancey
President Bill Clinton tried to make that distinction. As a Christian, he said, he sought guidance on moral issues from the Bible. As president of the United States, though, he could not automatically propose that everything immoral should therefore be made illegal.
~ Philip Yancey
Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
~ Philip Yancey
Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.
~ Philip Yancey
The law did not encourage obedience, rather it magnified disobedience. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
~ Philip Yancey
The law is what powerful men say it shall be.
~ Philippa Gregory
We say that we are rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We,their own lords, quarrel among ourselves, and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children.
~ Philippa Gregory
We say that we are the rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We, their own lords, quarrel among ourselves and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children.
~ Philippa Gregory
We say that we are the rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We, their own lords, quarrel among ourselves and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far
~ Philippa Gregory
We are joint heirs,' I said in a sharp undertone. 'The land will always be partly mine.' Richard smiled, a smile like midsummer skies. 'I shan't regard it.' He said sweetly. 'And you don't know the law, my clever little cousin. If they commit you to an asylum, you are disinherited at once. Did you not know that, my dear? If you go on with your seeings and your dreamings, you will lose everything.
~ Philippa Gregory