Law Quotes

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus

Sorry, Fellow, Citizens

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Brigham Young

Live, Above, Master

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Reality, Words

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.
Monica Lewinsky

School, Guess, Attorneys

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
Ben Okri

Made, Cannot, Police

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
Rahm Emanuel

Live, Different, Friends

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Jesse Ventura

Job, Down, Crime

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
Christopher Darden

Justice, Compassion

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt

Power, Minds, Tyranny

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas

Cannot, State, Rule

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Edgar Quinet

Future, Past, Humanity

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
Tony Kushner

Thinking, Become, Sense

Law and justice are not always the same.
Gloria Steinem

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
Abu Bakar Bashir

Why, State, Books

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.
John Boehner

Both, Simply, Resolution

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
John Boehner

Marriage, Family, Positive

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
Jim Garrison

Power, Country, Against

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage

Cannot, Talent, Fail

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown

Black, Down, Country

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin Buber

Deep, Him, Within

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler

Once, Half, Seem

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.
Paul Cellucci

Business, Others, Open

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
Maria Callas

Age, Children, Wonderful

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
Jeb Bush

Great, Security, Economic

I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.
Ashley Greene

School, Before, Become

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
Bela Lugosi

Career, Philosophy, Acting

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. Anthony

Trust, Help, Woman

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Maimonides

Perfect, Far, Possible

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
Helen Reddy

Women, Hate, School

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Time, Means, Involved

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