Quotes About Law

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.

Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country.

When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.

Jesus transcends the Law, but in the Law's own sense and direction. He does this by appealing to the most humane aspect of the legal prescription, the aspect most foreign to the contagion of violence, which is the obligation of the two accusers to throw the first two stones. The Law deprives the accusers of a mimetic model. Once

Le leggi del desiderio sono universali ma non comportano l'uniformità delle opere romanzesche, nemmeno sui punti di applicazione. La legge fonda la diversità e la rende intelligibile. L'unità romanzesca appare a condizione che smettiamo di considerare il personaggio - il sacrosanto individuo - come una entità perfettamente autonoma e scopriamo le leggi dei rapporti fra tutti i personaggi.

W]hat is this law of the greatest number which modern governments invoke and in which they claim to find their sole justification? It is simply the law of matter and brute force, the same law by which a mass, carried down by its weight, crushes everything that lies in its track. It is precisely here that we find the point of junction of the democratic conception and materialism...

Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.

What "value" is taught when school administrators thumb their noses at the highest court in the land and continue illegal practices?

You can't tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have it in your power to turn it into a ghastly and prolonged struggle; the victim must squirm like a worm in your fingers, not for ten minutes, but for ten months. Pfui! I don't like the law. It was not I, but a great philosopher, who said that the law is an ass.

habeas corpus ad subjiciendum.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise, and it is exact.

The most important thing for you to know is that it is impossible to feel bad and at the same time be having good thoughts. That would defy the law, because your thoughts cause your feelings. If you are feeling bad, it is because you are thinking thoughts that are making you feel bad.