When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius Caesar

Law, without force, is impotent.
Blaise Pascal

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
George W. Bush

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan Watts

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James A. Baldwin

I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.
Bill Maher

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant