Law Quotes - page 4

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. View quote
Mark Twain
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. View quote
Voltaire
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. (Abraham Lincoln)
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. View quote
Larry Wall
There is ... but one categorical imperative Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. View quote
Immanuel Kant
International law exists only in textbooks on international law. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. View quote
John Major
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich man to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. View quote
Sean O`Casey
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. View quote
Bill Cosby
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law. (William Gaddis)
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. View quote
John Adams
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. View quote
Thomas Jefferson