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Quotes About Law

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
~ John Boyd Orr
If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.
~ Laozi
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
~ Felix Adler
Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.
~ Julian Assange
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
~ George Crabbe
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality
~ Harold Geneen
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
~ John Lennon
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.
~ Michael Gove
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
~ Doris Lessing
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
~ Earl Warren
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
~ Mark Twain
Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
~ Vladimir Putin
It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.
~ Hillary Clinton
Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
~ William Ernest Hocking
We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.
~ John Kaplan
I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.
~ Alexei Navalny
Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious.
~ Lawrence Lessig
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
~ Julius Caesar
It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights.
~ Steven Magee
Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.
~ Ian McEwan, The Children Act
To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.
~ Harshit Walia
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
~ A.E. Samaan