Quotes About Law

Without the rule of law there could be no safety and no progress: if you created something, somebody else might just take it away because they wanted it.

What was once an open space between law and freedom, one governed by character and truth, is now deserted, so law must now do what character has abandoned.

It's legitimate for the police to use violence because they are enforcing the law; the law is legitimate because it's rooted in the constitution; the constitution is legitimate because it comes from the people; the people created the constitution by acts of illegal violence. The obvious question, then: How does one tell the difference between "the people" and a mere rampaging mob?

The legal and philosophical question then became: what rights do human beings have simply by dint of being human – that is, what rights could they be said to have 'naturally', even if they existed in a State of Nature, innocent of the teachings of written philosophy and revealed religion, and without codified laws?

What social forms would still exist, even among people who had no recognizable form of law or government? Would marriage exist? What forms might it take? Would Natural Man tend to be naturally gregarious, or would people tend to avoid one another? Was there such a thing as natural religion?

The most famous of these is the Law of Jubilee: a law that stipulated that all debts would be automatically cancelled "in the Sabbath year" (that is, after seven years had passed), and that all who languished in bondage owing to such debts would be released.

ÖrneÄŸin Ä°ngiliz liberalizmi devlet bürokrasisinin azalt?lmas?na deÄŸil, tam aksine yol açm??t?r; özerk bireyler aras?nda özgür sözleÅŸme ÅŸeklindeki liberal rüyay? mümkün k?lan hukuk görevlileri, sicil memurlar?, müfettiÅŸler, noterler ve polis memurlar? kadrolar?n?n durmaks?z?n ÅŸiÅŸmesine.

Equality here is a direct extension of freedom; indeed, is its expression. It also has almost nothing in common with the more familiar (Eurasian) notion of 'equality before the law', which is ultimately equality before the sovereign – that is, once again, equality in common subjugation.

We would like to suggest that these three principles - call them control of violence, control of information, and individual charisma - are also the three possible bases of social power. The threat of violence tends to be the most dependable, which is why it has become the basis for uniform systems of law everywhere; charisma tends to be the most ephemeral.

È il segreto che ti sussurro all'orecchio già da un mese: noi due non siamo vivi! Voglio dire, non in un luogo in cui vigono le leggi ordinarie che regolano i rapporti tra le persone, tantomeno tra uomo e donna. Dove siamo, allora? Non m'interessa saper dove, perché dargli un nome? Sarebbero comunque nomi "loro", nomi tradotti, e con te voglio una costituzione diversa di cui saremo noi a fissare le leggi.

The curse of the law" is not the curse of having to live within the framework of Torah for the Torah itself is good. Nor is it the curse of being required to obey the Torah but lacking the power to do so

Many activities were forbidden on the Sabbath: work, play, and unnecessary travel. Even minor instances of Sabbath-breaking were punished with much severity. The Essex County Court indicted a man for carrying a burden on the Sabbath, and punished a woman for brewing on the Lord's Day. When Ebenezer Taylor of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, fell into a forty-foot well, his rescuers stopped digging on Saturday afternoon while they debated whether it was lawful to rescue him on the Sabbath. Other

It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice.

The law always limits every power it gives.

De la ley nace la seguridad; de la seguridad, la curiosidad, y de la curiosidad, el saber. (...) En la necesaria marcha de las cosas, el derecho debe preceder a la ciencia

essence of nonviolence was a refusal to retaliate against evil, a refusal based on the realization that "the law of retaliation is the law of the multiplication of evil.

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.

Que todos somos iguales ante la ley si pagamos lo mismo.

We're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount

If you can afford a strong defence you can get away with whatever you want these days.

Cu to?ii suntem egali în fa?a legii – dac? pl?tim egal.

Emancipation was a mistake;" and these fast writers drew along with them a large body, who would fain be slaveholders themselves. We must never lose sight of the fact that though the majority perhaps are on the side of freedom, large numbers of Englishmen are not slaveholders only because the law forbids the practice

Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.