Quotes on Law

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.