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Quotes of the Week - May 8, 2012:
"I wasn't supportive of his partying or his relationship with another
girl." -- Dita Von Teese, burlesque artist, on why her marriage
to rock star, Marilyn Manson, ended.
"I love British men's sense of humor and the sense of chivalry
and charm. It is something that is innately part of the culture. It's
not the same in America." --Cameron Diaz, actress.
"I counted that there were six girls in total. That does not seem
to me to be a considerable number. Numerous young women with whom I've
had sexual exchanges had the same age difference. Swinging sexual parties
are about having free and consentual sex." -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
former IMF chief, denying that young women only had sex with him for
money.
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| Topic: Law Quotes - Famous Law Quotes,
Quotations, Sayings about Justice |
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to
act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the
laws.
Plato
Good men must not obey the laws too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society
is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore
the American precept that each individual is accountable for
his actions.
Ronald Reagan
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
Richard Nixon
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. Obedience to
the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its
breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
The law . . . will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations
and wanton tempers of men. . . . On the one hand it is inexorable
to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other
it is deaf, deaf as an adder, to the clamors of the populace.
John Adams
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the
law is a ass, a idiot."
Charles Dickins
From novel Oliver Twist.
Nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice
put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived
of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Constitution of the USA
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases
through love. This is an unalterable law.
Buddha
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
Legal maxim
From the Latin 'Fiat justitia ruat coelum'.
Usually attributed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, Roman
statesman and Julius Caesar's father-in-law.
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot
have a good society.
C. S. Lewis
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.
This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect
for the law.
Winston Churchill
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent,
it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful
liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within
limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not
add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but
the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right
of an individual.
Thomas Jefferson
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any
copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain
The law of love could be best understood and learned through
little children.
Mahatma Gandhi
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment
escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Mark Twain
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of
cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We
need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in
terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
Marianne Williamson
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to
the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to
life and to everything.
Plato
As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country
where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens
before the law are the rule.
Albert Einstein
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon
each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives
is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle
Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers.
For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades
and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence
with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters
of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy,
guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running,
after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.
Fred Rodell
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Seneca
The law does not concern itself with trifles.
Legal maxim
From the Latin 'De minimis non curat lex'.
What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the
whole Torah [Law], the rest is Commentary.
Hillel
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the
dominance of man.
Confucius
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but
if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws;
because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide,
and where authority ought to interpose.
Samuel Johnson
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at,
and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Law and justice are not always the same.
Gloria Steinem
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that
are exactly the same and show how they are different.
Hart Pomerantz
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms
to the law of God.
William Blackstone
The law is reason free from passion.
Aristotle
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated
from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Aristotle
The good of the people is the chief law.
Cicero
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the
hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without
law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for
the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart
of man.
Aristotle
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man,
but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and
murderers of mothers, for manslayers.
Bible
1 Timothy 1. 8-9.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
Julius Caesar
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Lord John Campbell
Where law ends, there tyranny begins.
William Pitt, the Elder
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
Lydia Maria Child
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws
strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
The laws are silent in the midst of arms.
Cicero
Equity follows the law.
Legal maxim
From the Latin 'Aequitas sequitur legem'.
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that
every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit
of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys
them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Sam Goldwyn
The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's
awe.
Ben Jonson
One wrong does not justify another.
Legal maxim
From the Latin 'Injuria non excusat injuriam'.
The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove.
Juvenal
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted
death shall perish by his own plot.
Ovid
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the
law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no
man can tell how to confute him.
John Selden
The gods have their own laws.
Ovid
No one can be judge in his own cause.
Legal maxim
From the Latin 'Nemo debet esse judex in
propria causa'.
Still you keep o' th' windy side of the law.
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night.
Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into
them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
Solon
Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample
on the blood of his father, and to tear that charter of his
own and his children's liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
William Henry Seward
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham
We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it.
Their perch and not their terror
William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure.
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools
for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely
as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
William Shakespeare
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws
are too weak for anything tougher than suet; yet you finished
the goose, with the bones and the beak. Pray, how did you do
it?" "In my youth," said his father, "I
took to the law, and argued each case with my wife and the muscular
strength which it gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my life."
Lewis Carroll
True, we build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct
no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our
own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which
the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve
stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens
and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men
in a peaceful state.
John W. Davis
While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized
way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction,
it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving
society and more concerned with serving themselves than the
lawyers.
Fred Rodell
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the
study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely
as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giradoux
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
King Henry VI Part 2.
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
Benjamin Franklin
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant,--a harpy that devours
everything.
Jonathan Swift
Ignorance of the law, which everybody is supposed to know, does
not constitute an excuse.
Legal maxim
From the Latin 'Ignorantia juris quod quisque
scire tenetur non excusat'.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let
wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
It is an honorable calling that you have chosen. Some of you
will soon be defending poor, helpless insurance companies who
are constantly being sued by greedy, vicious widows and orphans
trying to collect on their policies. Others will work tirelessly
to protect frightened, beleaguered oil companies from being
attacked by depraved consumer groups.
Art Buchwald
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring
all laws into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The King can do no wrong.
Legal maxim
From the Latin 'Rex non potest peccare'.
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to
make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those
who make the law.
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