Quotes About Law

That," I told Tatiana, "is the most fucked-up law I have ever heard.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

That," I told Tatiana, "is the most fucked up law I have ever heard." [...] "You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!" I yelled back.

You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!

My mother should have been an attorney. She and Abe could have opened a law firm together.

With no more ammunition, I resorted to old stanbys. "That," I told Tatiana," is the most fucked up law I've ever heard

Non è con un torto che dobbiamo far valere il nostro diritto. Se no è un diritto storto

When we lose faith in our officers of the law, it harms all of as. It cripples our criminal justice system. It threatens the most vulnerable parts of our community. It allows money and power to subvert justice.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

In that August of 1957, however, the cloakroom was often crowded, with senators talking earnestly on sofas and standing in animated little groups, and sometimes the glances between various groups were not comradely at all—sometimes, in fact, they glinted with a barely concealed hostility, and the narrow room simmered with tension, for the main issue before the Senate that summer was civil rights, a proposed law intended to make voting easier for millions of black Americans

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I don't know," he had answered grimly, "except that the time-tested method of instilling social virtue and respect for law in the minds of the young did not appeal to a pre-scientific pseudo-professional class who called themselves 'social workers' or sometimes 'child psychologists.

A little more money won't do you any good—because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount. That's a widely experienced but previously unformulated law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law.

Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

What statute was violated, if any, in turning a man exactly ninety degrees from everything else?

It's much safer to break a law knowingly than to do so through ignorance.

It is an unwritten law of the Navy that facilities must always be locked when they are most needed.

One thing that I always did every time I reached an inhabited planet was to study law. Not to practice. . . . But to understand the ground rules.

cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves.

These children were often caught; police arrested batches each day. Were they scolded? Yes, often scathingly. Were their noses rubbed in it? Rarely. News organs and officials usually kept their names secret—in many places the law so required for criminals under eighteen. Were they spanked? Indeed not! Many had never been spanked even as small children; there was a widespread belief that spanking, or any punishment involving pain, did a child permanent psychic damage.

The more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.