Law Quotes - page 7

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law. (Jack Kevorkian)
So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible And my answer to that is, no they do not. View quote
Milton Friedman
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. View quote
Learned Hand
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. View quote
Louis Brandeis
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. View quote
J. William Fulbright
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. View quote
Gerry Spence
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. View quote
Charles Dickens
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool. View quote
Sydney Smith
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. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. View quote
Mark Twain
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. (John Selden)
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. View quote
Federico Fellini
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Public opinion's always in advance of the law. View quote
John Galsworthy
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. View quote
Franz Kafka
In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Possession is eleven points in the law. View quote
Colley Cibber
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. View quote
John D. Carmack
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. (John Locke)
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. View quote
John Locke
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. View quote
William Empson
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. View quote
Honoré de Balzac