Law Quotes

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

~ Marc Bekoff

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

~ Ammon Hennacy

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

~ John Marshall

That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.

~ Scott Snyder

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some level of our brains, is that we have to imagine everything coming apart. ... It's what we are. Out of control, always prepared, Boy Scout control freaks.

~ Lawrence Joseph

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.

~ Karen Armstrong

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

~ David Brin

I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He'd been injured during the robbery, so they put him in hospital to make him better so that they could make him worse. During the administration of the cat, he fainted after six strokes, and the doctor put him in hospital again. And he got very friendly with the nurses and the doctors, and after a while they got him well enough to go back and take the next six strokes. I saw him afterward and I said: Oh, Jesus—that bloody law, that bloody judge! But he said: I don't want the fellow who made the law, and I don't want the fellow who passed the sentence. All I want is the fellow who held the bloody whip.

~ Peter O'toole

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

~ Charles Dickens

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

~ Lawrence Lessig

Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility (The Ten Commandments, 10).

~ J. Douma

I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.

~ Dean Koontz

If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

~ Hersch Lauterpacht

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.

~ H.c. Nicholas

When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. And then, when he loses and when he's weak, he invokes the law and tolerance of differences. All of a sudden, he knows by heart every single human rights convention he broke so many times before.

~ Andrej Nikolaidis

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

~ Christopher Hitchens

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

~ Wilhelm Reich

With you it is always the law, never equity.

~ Rafael Sabatini

I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.

~ Frédéric Bastiat

Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.

~ Toba Beta

[Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail.

~ Jim Powell

In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.

~ Patricia J. Williams

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

A state which savagely represses or persecutes sections of its people cannot in my view be regarded as observing the rule of law, even if the transport of the persecuted minority to the concentration camp or the compulsory exposure of female children on the mountainside is the subject of detailed laws duly enacted and scrupulously observed.

~ Tom Bingham

Approaching a police car is a very dangerous activity to engage in.

~ Steven Magee

Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.

~ Steven Magee

I am far more fearful of the police than I am of North Korea.

~ Steven Magee

At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement badge.

~ Steven Magee

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.

~ Aleister Crowley

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We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane phrases to express commonplace ideas. Seeking to be precise, we become redundant. Seeking to be cautious, we become verbose. Our sentences twist on, phrase within clause within clause, glazing the eyes and numbing the minds of our readers. The result is a writing style that has, according to one critic, four outstanding characteristics. It is (1) wordy, (2) unclear, (3) pompous, and (4) dull.

~ Richard C. Wydick

There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher. - Malcolm Fade

~ Cassandra Clare

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.

~ George Washington

The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law’s officers, which may at times assail the most honest.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson