Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
Daniel Webster

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Richard Schickel

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
J. Edgar Hoover

Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover

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

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
Al Gore

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
Al Gore

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
Alvin Toffler

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley