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Quotes About Law

In my most desperate moments, I have never conceived of anything more horrible than a law office.
~ Marcel Proust
We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law.
~ John Milton
Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty who made Thee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'n Such as He pleased and circumscribed their being?
~ John Milton
The issue when it comes to meditation is what, not if. The mind observes the impulse to meditate the way the body observes the law of gravity. Scripture has a lot to say about meditating wisely. The psalmist talks about the fruitful person as one whose "delight is in the law of the
~ John Ortberg Jr.
the Canadian government – the power of each of us as citizens – has been and still is breaking the law. Breaking it by misusing it – by resorting to avoidance, by pretending to be doing what it isn't, by legalistic and administrative manipulation, by malingering. These are standard tricks far beneath the dignity of the Crown. For
~ John Ralston Saul
Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have prosperity no matter what your present circumstances may be. Man has dominion over all things when he knows the Law of Being, and obeys it. The Law gives you power to attain prosperity and position without infringing the rights and opportunities of anyone else in the world." — Emmet Fox in Alter Your Life
~ John Randolph Price
Imperfections have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment mercy.
~ John Ruskin
You'd need a retarded jury not to convict." "What's your point?" Jenkins asked.
~ John Sandford
sued, but the
~ John Sandford
Fuckin' trash, he thought. Where were the cops when you needed one?
~ John Sandford
And so this could prove that these two highly trained killers were involved with the porn, and we know for sure that they've got guns." "Uh-huh." Virgil thought about that and said, "Okay.
~ John Sandford
wanna lawyer.
~ John Sandford
the police don't stop crime; they simply record it, and sometimes they catch the people who do it.
~ John Sandford
bureaucrat said. "Come back with a search warrant
~ John Sandford
He didn't know if that was good or bad: concealed-carry people actually committed fewer felonies per year than cops did 
~ John Sandford
Virgil thanked him, and as he was leaving, said, "I wouldn't necessarily recommend you invite a cop inside, when you've been smoking dope." "It's medicinal," Gates said. "Besides, does anybody really care anymore?
~ John Sandford
So someone could just come up and kill me, and there would be no legal repercussions?" "Well, no," she said. "If someone were to murder you while you were legally dead, I believe that here in Ohio they could be tried for 'disturbing a corpse.
~ John Scalzi
It was largely a land without Borders - something that attracted him and disturbed him both. The land didn't need laws. But the people did.
~ John Shirley
The preacher rose high on his elbow. Law changes, he said, but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.
~ John Steinbeck
Successful law is simply the publication of the practice of the majority of units of a society, and by it the inevitable variable units are either driven to conform or are eliminated. We have had many examples of law trying to be the well-spring of action; our prohibition law showed how completely fallacious that theory is.
~ John Steinbeck
Law changes, he said, but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.
~ John Steinbeck
I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency. A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
~ John Steinbeck
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere
~ Julius Caesar