Law Quotes - page 6

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. (Marcus Garvey)
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. View quote
James Baldwin
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. View quote
Earl Warren
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. View quote
Jules Verne
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. View quote
George Chapman
I am ashamed the law is such an ass. View quote
George Chapman
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. (Northrop Frye)
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. View quote
Doris Lessing
There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Necessity has no law. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow. View quote
Chief Joseph
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. (William Wordsworth)
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. View quote
Herbert Read
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc. View quote
Annie Besant
I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal. View quote
Annie Besant
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it. View quote
Jack Kevorkian