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The law is that the law will be broken. By Marty Rubin Law Broken

Law is twofold natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law. By Ambrose Law Natural Written Twofold Heart

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. By Paul Watson Interested Culture Law

1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their final end, by the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Creator. All law finds its first and ultimate truth in the eternal law. Law is declared and established by reason as a participation in the providence of the living God, Creator and Redeemer of all. By The Catholic Church Law Creator Good Established God

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death. By Amy Harmon Laws Rules Consequences Life Break

Reason is the Soul of the Law. By Thomas Hobbes Law Soul Reason

The only true law is that which leads to freedom, By Richard Bach Freedom True Law Leads

The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legalprofessionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try tokeep the law mysterious and inaccessible. By Jay M. Feinman Law Itall Complex Voluminousthat Knowledgeable

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. By Charles Evans Hughes Applications Certainty Deal Questions Relating

There is no law governing all things. By Giordano Bruno Things Law Governing

The Law is Reason free from Passion. By Aristotle. Passion Law Reason Free

Law is all that separates us from barbarism and the howling within; it is a necessary leash on our darker natures. By Kevin Hearne Law Natures Separates Barbarism Howling

Law is a bottomless pit. By John Arbuthnot Law Pit Bottomless

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. By Charles Macklin Yer Science Pocket Law Sort

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. By Chaim Weizmann Basis Obey Law Moral Compelling

The law does not come wrapped in a tidy, clearly labeled package. Discerning what the law is requires gathering bits and pieces from a variety of sources, sorting them according to their relative weights and relevance... and combining them into as cohesive an analysis as possible."Christina Kunz, popular legal writer By William R. Keates Tidy Package Law Wrapped Labeled

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. By Edward Levi Action Law Time Wrong Forward

Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers. By Lawrence M. Friedman Law Lawyers Important Left

The law is an opinion with a gun. By Stefan Molyneux Gun Law Opinion

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society. By Rousas John Rushdoony Proper Law Good Place Society

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey. By William Blackstone Action Laws Sense Signifies Animate

The Law is the Law! By David Pratt Law

The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property, protection of persons, protection of government. And by analyzing each of these three categories, we arrive at the same logical and necessary conclusion: the uselessness and hurtfulness of law. By Peter Kropotkin Protection Categories Property Persons Government

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power. By Catharine Mackinnon United States Law Power Medium

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. By William Blackstone Law People Embodiment Moral Sentiment

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. By George Savile Laws Persons Generally Understood Sorts

He that discovers and defines law is law abiding By Sunday Adelaja Abiding Law Discovers Defines

When we recognize that legal rules are simply formulae describing uniformities of judicial decision, that legal concepts likewise are patterns or functions of judicial decisions, that decisions themselves are not products of logical parthenogenesis born of pre-existing legal principles but are social events with social causes and consequences, then we are ready for the serious business of appraising law and legal institutions in terms of some standard of human values.Felix Cohen, Columbia Law Review, 1935 By Felix S. Cohen Legal Judicial Law Cohen Columbia

Where there's law there's injustice, By Leo Tolstoy Injustice Law

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits. By Livy Law Insensible Inexorable Strong Pardon

The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained, By Ron Chernow Maintained Law Successfully Argued Plausibly

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. By William O. Douglas Pushed Law Series Calculating Machines

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. By Robert Bork Law Fashion Concept Vulnerable Winds

(The law) is like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone's to the breeze. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. By Robert Penn Warren Bed Law Blanket Night Singlebed

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. By Thomas Aquinas Law Good Made Community Ordinance

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? By Elliot Richardson Skill Predicaments Legal Task Demands

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils. By Jose Rizal Law Skin Reason Nostrils

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. By Nick Harkaway Law Error Attempt Write Lot

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law. By Lysander Spooner Law Rule Things Permanent Universal

A bad law is no law. By Cassandra Clare Law Bad

The law is whatever people determine it to be. By David Ben-Gurion Law People Determine

Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. By Marsilio Ficino Law Ears Eyes Moves Hands

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. By Lydia M. Child Justice Law Violates Principles Eternal

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. By Louis Xiv Laws Sovereigns

The law is a horrible business. By Clarence Darrow Business Law Horrible

The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive. By Auguste Comte Theological Metaphysical Scientific Conditions Fictitious

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right. By August Wilson Put Law Paper Make

It is just that there be law, but law is not justice By Jacques Derrida Justice Law

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way. By Jack Cade Law Court Equity Wrong Reward

(law is) the pretty branding instrument invented by the overfed to protect themselves against the hungry ? By Joseph Conrad Law Hungry Pretty Branding Instrument

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside. By Henry Ward Beecher Battery Law Protects Sweeps Destruction

The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it. By William Blackstone Law Reason Dubious Ceased Universal

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it. By William J. Brennan Jr. Law Stand Social

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool. By L.e. Modesitt Jr. Law Justice Mistake Ideal Tool

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. By Earl Warren Life Law Ethics Civilized Floats

The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail. By Joe Gores Jail Law Stay

A law without sanctions is no law; it is only counsel, or advice. By Charles Grandison Finney Counsel Advice Law Sanctions

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals. By Pindar Law Immortals King Mortals

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all. By Friedrich Nietzsche Kind Law

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. By Abraham Lincoln Law Mankind Reason Wise Men

Law and justice are not the same. By John Connolly Law Justice

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind ... The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely. By Robert Bolt Law Light Kind Man Instrument

Where there is no common power, there is no law By Thomas Hobbes Power Law Common

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. By Alexander Hamilton Laws Operation Dead Letter Courts

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. By Philip Sidney Laws Nets Seamarks Passenger Made

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. By Wendell Phillips Law Warm Living Opinion Close

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. By Roscoe Pound Civilization Reason Law Subjection Involves

Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those who claim to study it and who cannot remain blind to the values implied by their interpretations. Every society must develop a vision of justice that is shared by all its members, in order to avoid civil war, and this is what the legal framework provides. Whereas conceptions of justice differ from epoch to epoch and from country to country, the need for a shared representation of justice in a particular country and at a particular time does not. The legal system is where this representation takes shape and, although it may well be contradicted by the facts, it gives shared meaning and a common orientation to people's actions. By Alain Supiot Justice Law Discovery Shared Divine

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. By Christopher Dawson Law Angels Describes Things Work

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. By Archibald Macleish Scope Life Possibility Dignity Business

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. By Plautus Gloriously Uncertain Thing Law

the perhaps rather prosaic truth that law is an imperfect yet indispensable vehicle by which both to conserve and transform society By Raymond Wacks Society Prosaic Truth Law Imperfect

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law. By Voltaire Lawyers Nation State Law Opinion

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong. By Millard Fillmore Weak Strong Law Protection Efficient

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure. By Thomas Jefferson Laws Sense Ordinary Made Men

One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule. By Kathleen Norris Blind Moorings Follow Advantages Laws

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. By Frederic Bastiat Liberty Personality Property Laws Exist

We are not made for law, we are made for love. By George Macdonald Made Law Love

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. By Dwight D. Eisenhower Rule Law Clearest Show Everyday

Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions. By Cesare Beccaria Consulted Dangerous Popular Maxim Spirit

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. By Rutherford B. Hayes Letter Execute Law Education Dead

The law does not require you to be a mind-reader By Richard Harris Mindreader Law Require

Law is order, and good law is good order. By Aristotle. Order Law Good

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations. By J. William Fulbright Law Relations Essential Foundation Stability

Law, without force, is impotent. By Tom Clancy Law Force Impotent

Only law can give us freedom. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom Law Give

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. By Henry St John, 1St Viscount Bolingbroke Lawyers Heart World Laws Pry

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors. By Michel De Montaigne Laws Credit Tis Authority Purpose

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice. By Paolo Bacigalupi Laws Documents Confusing Justice

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. By Roscoe Pound Stable Law Stand

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. By Toba Beta Law Loser Made Winner Preserve

Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws. By Waris Dirie Important Laws Effective People

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws. By Baron De Montesquieu Laws Signification Things General Relations

most intellectually engaging, the richest field of the law is contracts. Contracts are not just sheets of paper promising you a job, or a house, or an inheritance: in its purest, truest, broadest sense, contracts govern every realm of law. When we choose to live in a society, we choose to live under a contract, and to abide by the rules that a contract dictates for us - By Hanya Yanagihara Contracts Engaging Law Intellectually Richest

The law of common sense. By Sophie Swetchine Sense Law Common

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: "Who am I$ By Barbara Bisantz Raymond Life Law Consonant Mankind Question

Law is a substitute for love. By Helen Mccloy Law Love Substitute

Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape. By Robert Coover Legalists Message Law Power Shape

Law without reason is criminal. By Criss Jami Law Criminal Reason

The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven. By Peter Kropotkin Serfdom Feudalism Law Slavery Royalty