Quotes About Law

Most men are good Christians in the verdict of their own opinion; but you know the law alloweth no man to be a witness in his own case, because their affection usually overreacheth conscience, and self-love deceiveth truth for its own interest.

There was still the temptation to believe the world was a mere trap for human sin. But sin, the way he saw it, was only the failure of an imperfectly made being to keep a perfect law.

If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.

It is necessary that a line, as a trace of movements, must be a rhythm, a law...a field of possibilities beyond the probable. This spatiality is meta-spatial...A line arouses the field that gives it sense by deforming the field given...It is a systematic error, 'coherent deformation'--thus each painting is the creation of a dimensionality--thus (1) the painting is a world for itself, not a copy of the world; (2) it expresses indirectly and not by returning to the object.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.

If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and our task to disentangle the natural laws would be hopelessly difficult. The fact however that alpha has just its value 1/137 is certainly no chance but itself a law of nature. It is clear that the explanation of this number must be the central problem of natural philosophy.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Renaissance of Roman Law was overcome by the power of the great legal corporations

Without law men are beasts.

The world of law was filled with the fallen, but theater wasn't. No one ever "fell back" onto theater. You had to really, really want it.

hypocritical laws that made a woman pay for a man's crime. Why should women "receive the punishment due to the vices of so large a portion of the rest"?

Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

People don't obey a law just because they're told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that's a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

I don't favor institutional capital punishment

I'm for hire. I'll defend anyone who comes to me.

In 1362, for the first time in almost three centuries, English was acknowledged as a language of official business. Since the Conquest, court cases had been heard in French. Now the law recognised that too few people understood that language, perhaps because many of the educated lawyers, like the clergy, had died in the plague. From now on, it was declared, cases could be pleaded, defended, debated and judged in English.

Phoo," Zoltan said to me. "Legal system. Police. All playground stuff humans invented to amuse themselves. It's got nothing to do with real power.

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

My father was right. There is no client as scary as an innocent man.