Law Quotes

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht

Alone, Made, Understand

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

Life, Live, May

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair

Freedom, Democracy, Same

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
William Cobbett

Women, Power, Sex

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Kurt Huber

Justice, Against, Point

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Care, Nothing

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
Henry Louis Gates

Great, Justice, Racism

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph

Obey, Penalty, Submit

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley

Art, Break, Crime

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
Ernest Holmes

Cause, Effect, Reward

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann Hesse

Single, Possible, Transgress

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

Love, Learn, Few

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
Randall Terry

God, Eyes, Everyone

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas

Good, Care, Him

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom, Makes, Authority

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

God, Reason, Sweet

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, True, Another

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
Paul Ryan

Government, Since, President

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

Job, Write, Executive

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
Robert Byrd

Legal, Made, Value

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
Gilbert Parker

Nothing, Win, Lose

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

Made, Whole, Action

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Charles Caleb Colton

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
James Allen

Love, Spiritual, Expression

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Stokely Carmichael

Government, Conscience, Higher

The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow

Trouble, Lawyers

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Rush Limbaugh

Simple, Problem, Crime

Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.
Pat Robertson

Time, Care, Put

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
Jesse Jackson

Big, Dream, American

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Greta Garbo

Seems, Actions, Plans

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