Quotes About Law

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

The Cross is the sign of contradiction—destroying the seriousness of the Law, of the Empire, of the armies . . . But the magicians keep turning the cross to their own purposes. Yes, it is for them too a sign of contradiction: the awful blasphemy of the religious magician who makes the cross contradict mercy! This is of course the ultimate temptation of Christianity!

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.

45) We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.

Finding an Irish-American in the law enforcement profession is like finding hay in a haystack...

You will shoot, but you will not learn how to shoot in a CCW class. Rather, you will be given instruction on the law and how it pertains to carrying a firearm.

Often, companies will wait until the original patent has nearly run its course and then introduce some minor tweak to the product, thereby obtaining a new patent and effectively restarting the clock.

Whatever White might say about the law getting to "the essence" of things, when your client is in the hot seat in a deposition, the whole point is to avoid the essence.

Four states prohibited the marriage of alcoholics, 17 prohibited the marriage of epileptics, and 41 prohibited the marriage of those deemed feebleminded or insane. By the mid-1930s, America was the world leader in banned marriages. (Marriage restriction laws weren't declared unconstitutional until 1967.)

The legal aphorism is that when the law is on your side, argue the law; when the facts are on your side, argue the facts; when neither is on your side, attack the witness.)

Si, l'amavo in tutta l'ampiezza consentita dalla legge (la legge della mia natura) [...].

T]he Supreme Court is where the country takes out its dick and tits and decides who's going to get fucked and who's getting a taste of mother's milk. It's constitutional pornography in there[.]

In the Book of Exodus we find the beginning of the days when the Law was written.

This age of the Law came to an end with the onset of the age of grace that is, when Jesus' received His baptism. All salvation promised by the atonement for sins during the Old Testament era came to an end with the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist. Thus,through His baptism and the shedding of His blood, the sins of all humankind were remitted, and salvation from sin was perfectly completely.

currently, the federal government will loan any admitted student who isn't already in default on an educational loan the full cost of attendance to attend any ABA law school – and that cost is determined by the school. In other words, a law school can charge literally anything it wants to

ABA regulations prohibit students from working more than 20 hours per week during law school

No solo hemos sido liberados de la necesidad de cumplir la ley para ser salvos, sino también de la esclavitud al pecado en la vida diaria. Hemos sido liberados del peso de la ley para vivir una vida piadosa. No podemos gloriarnos en nuestra liberación sin a la vez aceptar nuestro llamado (ver Ro 6:1-14; Tit 2:11-14).

so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves. You

todos tendemos a ser mejores en hacer cumplir la ley que en extender la gracia.

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

God's law is meant to address and expose the heart because sin is always a matter of the heart before it is an action of the body.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.