Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins
John LockeThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs
MontaigneIn matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiLawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
Dorothy L SayersForbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QuintilianThe law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin BuberDiscourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham LincolnTime stands with impartial law
ManiliusWe will do everything in our power to make certain that this is as painless a process as possible for the benefit of the children [on divorcing Jude Law]
Sadie FrostThere can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn RandMy mother-in-law! If she lived in India, she’d be sacred. She’s like Boris Karloff after a busy night at the graveyard.
Bill TarmeyA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Henry L MenckenDirt is only matter out of place; and what is a blot on the escutcheon of the Common Law may be a jewel in the crown of the Social Republic
John Chipman GrayAll laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John GardnerLive your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest
Florence NightingaleAvoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean De La BruyereDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law (Book of the Law)
Aleister CrowleyThe laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A E HousmanAmerican couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
Florence KingA perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. [Too true!]
James DentLaws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai E StevensonI hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
E Lynn LintonWhoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo MachiavelliLaws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.
Giovanni GiolittiCustom is the law of fools.
Sir John VanbrughI think it's gonna be a lot of lawyers sitting in a room trying to thrash out a deal before it will ever happen [on the Hobbit]
Peter JacksonThere is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.
Geoffrey FisherLawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles LambNecessity has no law.
William LanglandFor centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert CamusAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. [The Categorical Imperative]
Imannuel KantCorporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Harold CoffinI know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S GrantIf you had told me when I was growing up with the sus laws I could be so proud to be a Londoner, I would not have believed you.
Heather SmallWe really have no definition of mother in our lawbooks.
Marianne O BattaniGenerally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
William BrewsterPeople are saying to me that what they don't want to do is put people who cannot afford this into a position where they are harming their own families. [on gambling laws]
Digby JonesOnly one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet
Mark TwainIn language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned. (Maxims, 1830)
Richard DuppaThe laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom
MontaigneIf you need to get a rebate, then you should debate, is it fair by the law, that you had to pay more?
Stan StevensMost people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...
Peggy NoonanThere should be a law against Lester Piggott.
Darrell McHargueFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganIf the England selectors make the same mistakes Australia have, which is not to address the flaws when you're successful, then down the track you're going to have some problems
Ian ChappellI submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King JrAll things obey fixed laws
ManiliusAssault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.
Dianne FeinsteinThere is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it
JuvenalPhilosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her (letter to Edmund Halley)
Sir Isaac Newton
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