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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer

Selfish, Wild, Beast

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
Robert Bork

Study, Said, Almost

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina

Life, Great, School

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
Mary Baker Eddy

God, Truth, Science

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
Marc Andreessen

Great, Business, Deep

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
Rod Stewart

Love, Fool, Heart

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
Joe Biden

Money, School, Confirm

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Marriage, Time

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren

Justice, Alive, Spirit

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
Billy Sunday

Human, Divine, Respects

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

Future, Alone, Single

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Lamar S. Smith

Political, Abuse, Views

Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.
Thomas Frank

Society, Enough, Free

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.
Shaun White

Against, Building, Places

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
Robert Anton Wilson

Sex, Shall, Universal

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Cannot, Actual, Acquire

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Peter Singer

Business, Problems, Ethics

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
Evel Knievel

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
Richard Lamm

Mean, Big, Rest

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover

Government, End, Officials

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell

Life, Religion, Ignorance

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
William Hague

Rather, Guilty, Press

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
William Hague

Time, Hope, Government

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Charles Morgan

School, Working, Three

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Learned Hand

Women, Men, Liberty

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
Joseph Prince

Best, Grace, Worst

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
Imran Khan

Moment, Class, Ruling

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Wendell Phillips

Men, Government, Talk

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
Ben Stein

Amazing, Short, Themselves

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
Sandra Day O'Connor

School, Judge, Dark

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