Bad laws were made to be broken.
Doctor WhoMost 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 NoonanThe law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin BuberMy opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.
Charles GounodThe mass of the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Bishop Samuel HorsleyIt is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed
James JouleMorris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
David LodgeStart with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Larry SummersNecessity has no law.
Oliver CromwellIndividual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn RandIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King JrDirt 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 GrayThe uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
H G WellsNothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature
Michael FaradayMy fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes. - During radio microphone test.
Ronald ReaganAs a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
James FulbrightCommon sense often makes good law.
William O DouglasMarriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard PryorHe is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles LambUnderstand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law.
Derek JarmanNo great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma GoldmanIt gave me no pleasure to see Lawrie Sanchez sacked from my old job at Fulham last week. As managers, we all get the sack sooner or later. But it's never nice.
Chris ColemanThe man that has no friend at court,
Must make the laws confine his sport,
But he that has, by dint of flaws,
may make his sport confine the laws.
Thomas ChattertonIf we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D BrandeisJustice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
William GaddisOne law for lion and ox is oppression.
William BlakeI hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
E Lynn LintonInstead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nations.
Jack BrooksCertain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWe can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles DarwinWhen you consider what he did for United, just to be mentioned alongside Denis Law is an honour.
Ruud Van NistelrooyDenis Law could dance on eggshells.
Bill Shankly'If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.'
Charles DickensSubstantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
John TurnerIt is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind
Herrick JohnsonI don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
Ian BothamWe 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 FrostIt is the tension between the scientist's laws and his own attempted breaches of them that powers the engines of science and makes it forge ahead. (Quiddities)
W V O QuineWhen law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank HerbertPeople crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund BurkeThere is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles DarwinFor the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric AmblerMy father said, 'There are times to sit, or stand and be counted,'
When good people die, just laws are forsaken, banned books smolder,
There comes a time when our steed must be armored and mounted;
The balance of good and evil rests on our collective shoulders.
Jason MercheyI have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
Kenneth AngerThe animals are not as stupid as one thinks - they have neither doctors nor lawyers
L DoquierMany laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter LandorChristianity is part of the laws of England.
Sir Matthew HaleI cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Queen Elizabeth IIThe law is reason, free from passion.
AristotleI want a guarantee (with physics and mathematics, not with laws) that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. [no such thing can exist, John]
John Gilmore
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