Quotes on Law

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.

The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they_x000D_ _x000D_ Who give her aspirations wings,_x000D_ _x000D_ And to the wiser law of music sway_x000D_ _x000D_ Her wild imaginings.

I am as free as nature first made man,_x000D_ _x000D_ Ere the base laws of servitude began,_x000D_ _x000D_ When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.