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Quotes About Law

A woman was not considered related to her own child by the bizarre laws of England. The man's seed contained the whole of the baby, so they said, who nestled inside the woman for most of a year before she bore it. This made the child the father's, not the mother's.
~ Jennifer Ashley
But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.
~ Jennifer Echols
I may not have been to college, he said, "but I have been to the police academy." ... He went on, "What do you think we do at the police academy, surf the internet?" "I can honestly say I never gave it much th-.
~ Jennifer Echols
Dexter went rigid. There was a code to Mr. Q.'s utterances: repetition invoked a law of opposites. "Many plans," uttered twice, meant: not this plan. "Many plans," Mr. Q. said again, drawing out the words as he gazed tenderly into Dexter's eyes. No plans
~ Jennifer Egan
The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is,
~ Jennifer L. Weber
My client," the lawyer said forcefully, "is pleading the Fifth.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras's atheism held that society must "denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
And there was a stocky black guy named Desmond that Raylan met who went after offenders who missed their court dates.
~ Elmore Leonard
An officer of the law tells an undesirable like yourself to get out of town. It's done all the time. If you don't choose to leave, then we have to play by your rules.
~ Elmore Leonard
En sonra, birinci savaÅŸ konseyini, bir san??a gizli kalan bir belgeye dayanarak hüküm giydirdiÄŸi için hukuku çiÄŸnemekle suçluyorum. İkinci savaÅŸ konseyini de üstten gelen emre uyarak, bir suçluyu, suçunu bile bile temize ç?kar?p a??r adli suç iÅŸlemekle, böylece birinci konseyin yasaya ayk?r? davran???n? örtbas etmekle suçluyorum.
~ Émile Zola
Bu suçlamalarda bulunurken, 29 temmuz 1881 tarihli Bas?n Yasas?n?n 30 ve 31. maddelerine kar?? geldiÄŸimi, bu yasan?n lekeleme suçlar?na ceza belirlediÄŸini bilmiyor deÄŸilim. İsteyerek kendimi tehlikeye at?yorum.
~ Émile Zola
Crumbling is not an instant's Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation's processes Are organized Decays. 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A Cuticle of Dust A Borer in the Axis An Elemental Rust— Ruin is formal—Devil's work Consecutive and slow— Fail in an instant, no man did Slipping—is Crash's law.
~ Emily Dickinson
Did you always know you wanted to practice law? She considers this - considers the truth - that she had no real passion for the law, but simply wanted to achieve for the sake of achievement...But of course, she did not divulge any of this, and instead says, No, not really.
~ Emily Giffin
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.
~ Emma Goldman
ANARCHISM:—The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
~ Emma Goldman
Thus Blackstone is right when he says, Human laws are invalid, because they are contrary to the laws of nature.
~ Emma Goldman
Anarchism urges man to think, to investigate, to analyze every proposition; but that the brain capacity of the average reader be not taxed too much, I also shall begin with a definition, and then elaborate on the latter. ANARCHISM:—The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
~ Emma Goldman
Cardinal Manning: Necessity knows no law, and the starving man has a natural right to a share of his neighbor's bread.
~ Emma Goldman
It is the law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, must be exactly what you need most at the moment to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.
~ Emmet Fox
I'm on the side of law & order & right - & to my mind they're worth while running any risk for. Evil is strong & powerful, but I'm strong & powerful too, & it's good to try one's strength against bad men & their ways.
~ Enid Blyton
Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get twenty-four? Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws.
~ Eoin Colfer
Hat dich jemand reinkommen sehen? Ja, das FBI, die CIA, die NSA, die DEA und das MI6. Ach ja, und die GPB. Die GPB? Gesamte Polizeibelegschaft.
~ Eoin Colfer
Butler had an excuse for not being in Iceland that would hold up in any court of law and possibly even on a note for teacher.
~ Eoin Colfer