The Law Quotes

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The law firm . . . was the staging ground of this stunt.

This decision says that quality should be more important than political connections. Equally important, the law requires us to trust the voters to evaluate those who are qualified rather than the party leaders.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The law is reason, free from passion.

He believes that gay couples are entitled to full protection under the law and should not be discriminated against based upon their relationship.

It's tainted because it violates the spirit of the law. The point of the Clean Election Act is to set this barrier between contributors and the candidate.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

They're so wrong, it's not right. They're breaking the law, and they better watch out.

Littering is a crime, but they're not enforcing the law. We need to educate the youths on why littering is bad and the effect litter has on neighborhoods.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.