Quotes About Law

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

The veneer of civilization is thin, the rule of law is fragile, and the precondition of both is economic and political calm.

when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and protecting property rights...

Thou shalt do no murder," and the distinction between murder and killing is not a small one. Murder, in the Hebrew language and culture, refers to the premeditated taking of a life outside the womb; killing had to do with the ritual

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge of this explanation for themselves. They know that law has merely utilized the social feelings of man, to slip in, among the moral precepts he accepts, various mandates useful to an exploiting minority, to which his nature refuses obedience. Law has perverted the feeling of justice instead of developing it.

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brotherís wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.

So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priestsí land does not belong to Pharaoh.

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORDís Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

Then the LORD said to Moses,

It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

You must redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.í Only when the ramís horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

You shall not murder.

You shall not steal.

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.