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Quotes About Law

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
~ Maria Callas
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.
~ Unknown
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
~ Jeff Marder
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
~ Tommy Cooper
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
~ H L Mencken
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
~ Taslima Nasrin
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
~ Bible
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law
~ Boethius
Remember this law of balance: Increase the number of approaches and decrease the impact of rejection. Susan
~ Mark Yarnell
Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.
~ Unknown
rather than increasing, corruption decreased. This was not achieved spontaneously, however; instead, a series of measures that were effective in tackling this vice were adopted. Transparency was introduced in law. All documents pertaining to the plan, including the selection of people who benefited from programs, accounts, and invoices were considered to be public documents, open and accessible to any citizen.
~ Unknown
Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people"s ability to accept things in the private realm as long as they are not made part of the structure of the law.
~ Martha Rosler
A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.
~ Martin Buber
Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.
~ Unknown
In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
By definition prostitutes did not exist, because prostitution has been eliminated by the Revolution. Charges could be brought against them for spreading venereal disease, performing depraved acts or leading a nonproductive life, but by law there were no whores.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
It was his wont to warn them continually that the privilege of living with him in his community brought with it a grave responsibility, for God was Just and would judge them more severely than those who lived in worse ages when it was more difficult to resist evil. He said: "Verily ye are in an age when whoso omitteth one tenth of the law shall be doomed. But there will come an age when whoso fulfilleth one tenth of the law shall be saved.
~ Unknown
The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.
~ Martin Luther
A unjust law, is no law at all.
~ Martin Luther
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
~ Martin Luther
Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.
~ Martin Luther