Best 9016 quotes in «law quotes» category

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to seek or demand the impossible. They will imagine what does not or cannot happen, misunderstand occurrences and events, and interpret them on the basis of cherished illusions which in no way reflect God's sunan or the essence of Islamic law.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

The law is agnostic about truth.

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

The law is an ass, an idiot.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.

The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

The law enforcement authorities have got a fairly good idea of who are these principal criminals. Who are the people, for instance, who receive the cell phones? When a young person goes and snatches a cell phone, there's someone who is sitting somewhere who receives this. Lots of this kind of crime.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

The law, in this country, is dead. The Supreme Court doesn't follow the Constitution, Congress doesn't follow the Constitution. The President doesn't even want to follow the Constitution. And yet we're the ones called radical.