Quotes About Law

Initially Sir Harold had threatened to take Emerson to law. He was prevented by some notion that this would be unsportsmanlike. (Seemingly no such stigma applied to the pursuit of a single fox by a troop of men on horseback and a pack of dogs.)

when CEOs break the law, they ought to go to jail, just like anyone else. The words chiseled in stone above the Supreme Court are EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. This is not followed by EXCEPT FOR CORPORATE EXECUTIVES.

From the early days of humanity, dogmatic theology, law, ethics, and science in its infancy, were the monopolies of one class and the source of their power.4

Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the "existing order," or for the reestablishment of the old order and the punishment of the offenders against

Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law was and is to protect the past and present status of society and, by its very essence, must be very conservative, if not reactionary. Theology and law are both of them static by their nature.5

Fresh from brawling courtsAnd dusty purlieus of the law.

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapp'd in universal law.

On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of Species 1855

Judge Raymond J. Brassard was a Republican appointee and not considered particularly favorable to plaintiffs' attorneys.

even toddlers know that rules should be followed but that they can be changed. These two capacities, capacities for love and law, for caring about others and following the rules, allow our characteristically human combination of moral depth and flexibility.

Socrates too thought that living according to the opinions of others was an illness. But he did not urge men to look for a source for producing their own unique opinions, or criticize them for being conformists. His measure of health was not sincerity, authenticity or any of the other necessarily vague criteria for distinguishing a healthy self. The truth is the one thing most needful; and conforming to nature is quite different from conforming to law, convention or opinion.

Por estas palavras: "O céu e a Terra não passarão sem que tudo esteja cumprido até o último iota", quis dizer Jesus ser necessário que a lei de Deus tivesse cumprimento integral, isto é, fosse praticada na Terra inteira, em toda a sua pureza, com todas as suas ampliações e consequências. Efetivamente,

First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to legal questions. Moreover, the law is better at telling us what not to do than at providing ends and goals worthy of our humanity.

You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.

Elder McConkie added, "All men, and the servants of the Lord in particular, acquired, in [the] preexistence, by obedience to law, the specific talents and capacities with which they are endowed in this life."[7] This being the case, any time your patriarchal blessing mentions one of your talents or gifts, it is discussing who you were in the premortal world.

Clancy Goldfinger, former managing partner of Catchum, Killum, and Eatum, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1951 and clerked for Judge XXX and Justice YYY, passed away Tuesday.")

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.

El espacio, suprema liberación. Si no fuera así, ¿qué sentido tendría que el mundo fuera tan grande? La lengua no engaña: largarse rima con salvarse. Si te estás muriendo, lárgate. Si estás sufriendo, muévete. No existe más ley que la del movimiento.

Pojurila sam u krajolik. Oh, kako je divno tr?ati! Prostor osloba?a od svega. Nema te patnje koja se ne može odagnati rasipanjem sebe u svemiru. Zar bi svijet bez razloga bio tako velik? Jezik ima pravo: ute?i zna?i spasiti se. Ako umireš, kreni. Ako patiš, pokreni se. Kretanje je jedini zakon.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

Israel's Supreme Court is one of the best in the world, and I think that it should stay that way; I don't want to weaken it, I just want to change its approach.

Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.

The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.'