Quotes About Law

There's nothing in our book, the Quran -- you call it "Ko-ran" -- that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.

Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.

Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.

Memories do not change the law.

Being the best trial lawyer alone does not always win the case. What wins cases is hard work and preparation from the entire team. In each of the trials in which I have been involved, we won in large part because our team was better prepared, had a better strategy and trial theme, and knew the facts on our feet better than the other side."

The calculation of damages needs reform in patent law. We need some method of damages apportionment similar to what is making its way through Congress. As most of the companies I represent are in the high tech arena, the market capture rule, especially in cases where the plaintiff solely seeks a reasonable royalty, is problematic."

We had all prepared to make sure we were ready to try this case on our own. And the client— seeing that preparation gave them that confidence.

Oui, tout à fait Notre pays est un État de droit. C'est indéniable. Encore faut-il préciser de quel droit il s'agit… Il n'y en a qu'un seul, unique et indivisible : le droit de garder le silence.

In a democratic society there are rules -- written and un-written -- which must be followed if the free institutions of that society are to endure. They include the right to protest -- even against the freedoms which allow those protests. But they do not include the right to interfere with the rights of others without due process of law.

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The vaunted liberty which was to make us free has eventuated in a more galling servitude to man's lower nature—especially to sex on the one hand, and to autocratic political power on the other. It is only the truth which can make us free and the truth is that liberty unchecked by law, the Natural Law of God and human law in accordance with the law of God, leads to license and thence to servitude.

The law locks up the man or woman/ Who steals the goose from off the common/ But leaves the greater villain loose/ who steals the common from the goose'.

the principle of karma, the law of cause and effect. There can be no effect, such as success, without a cause.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

The more we tolerate crime, the more crime we will have.

The one thing our nation needs desperately is law-abiding citizens, not just those who abide by human laws but those who abide by divine laws. Our

There hadn't been a singular moment when she'd consciously decided to do all those things. From law school on, her course of righting wrongs and taking on injustices had evolved naturally. But, with age, she had come to understand the true motivation.

If we illegally detain Altek, the threat we face is to our way of life. We cannot selectively enforce our laws. To do so diminishes us as a civilization, and lowers us to the moral and ethical ranks of those who oppose us.

human beings we have the obligation to transcend law through mercy. If we all had to live by the law, we would all be condemned—all of us. It is only by showing compassion and mercy that we create a better world.

I'm not even feeling guilty about it; I know Deb and she's talented and aggressive. She's in the public defender's office to help the most vulnerable in our society, which means she must have forgotten to take the Glory of Compensation in law school.

falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

knows that courtroom

Cam smiled wryly. "Priests and lawyers. Not exactly the most popular members of society right now, are we?" "And to think, mothers used to dream of their children becoming lawyers or clergymen.