Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James BaldwinThere 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 FisherI pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.
Heinz FischerMarriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard PryorCustom is the law of fools.
Sir John VanbrughThe United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank ZappaI 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 GilmoreHe is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles LambThe one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
Charles DickensThe idea of bringing all men on an equality with each other has always been a pleasant dream; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature.
Luc De VauvanarguesHeroin on any basis is a worse drug, a more dangerous drug than cannabis, but heroin in its pharmaceutical preparation, diamorphine, is available on prescription for people in pain and it's very widely prescribed.
So the law does not say that, because a drug is classed as illegal it therefore should not be available on prescription. What it does say, however, is that before drugs are available on prescription they've got to be properly tested and reearched. Not that that's happened to a lot of opiates, heroin and cocain derivatives.
So far the medical researchers have not been able to prove, indeed very few have tried, that there are real beneficial medicinal effects from cannabis.
Jack StrawForbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QuintilianI believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
Michael HowardI 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 JacksonNo one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
EuripedesNecessity has no law.
William LanglandI hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.
E Lynn LintonWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon JohnsonWhen 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 HerbertLawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles LambWe gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob BronowskiThe fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon JohnsonLaw is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai StevensonIt should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. [Hmm - the prisons would be pretty full if people got incarcerated for using words they didn't know the meaning of!]
David JonesIt 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 QuineI don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
Ian BothamI am ashamed the law is such an ass.
George ChapmanLaws were made to be broken. (Blackwood's Magazine)
Christopher NorthBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
Louis BonaparteAnd have they fixed the where and when?
And shall Trelawney die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen
Will know the reason why!
Robert Stephen HawkerWe 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 ReaganThe law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin BuberNature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel JohnsonA decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Butler LeacockUnderstand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law.
Derek JarmanThe advantage law is the best law in rugby, because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game.
Derek RobinsonTheir steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.
Malcolm ForbesI am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
Isambard Kingdom BrunelThe power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy BenthamLawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Samuel JohnsonI tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
Bill ClintonHe it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry YelvertonIf 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 SmallStart with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Larry SummersAs a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
James FulbrightIt 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 JrYoung lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else.
Washington IrvingNothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature
Michael FaradayDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law (Book of the Law)
Aleister Crowley
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