"Law" Quotes . Top 35 Short Quotes About "Law"

"All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development."

--- A. E. Waite

#Achieve #Ends #Law

"I had this question asked to me recently when I was buying food for my wife and brother in law and I would like to ask it to other people: Why is it that most celebrities pay with cash as opposed to credit card? Is it so that they are not recognized right away and want to be more unassuming?"

--- A. J. McLean

#People #Buying #Asks

"Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence."

--- A. O. Scott

#Risk #Law #Expectations

"The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Reasonable #Law #Common

"Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom."

--- A. Philip Randolph

#Democracy Freedom #Government Politics #Labor Union

"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Term #May #Law

"Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Becoming #Law #Extensions

"The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament."

--- A. V. Dicey

#Mean #Sovereignty #Constitution

"Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law."

--- A. V. Dicey

#Constitution #Made #Law

"What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure"

--- Aaron Betsky

#Syntax #Structure #Law

"Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained."

--- Aaron Burr

#Law

"Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer."

--- Aaron Hill

#Reason #Murderer #Law

"So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years."

--- Aaron Neville

#Guilty #Book #Standing There

"There is no justice in following unjust laws."

--- Aaron Swartz

#Relatable #Unjust #Justice

"There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture."

--- Aaron Swartz

#Unjust #Justice #Theft

"Of course the law's not racist."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Racist #Courses #Law

"America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#People #Ideals #Asks

"We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes."

--- Aasif Mandvi

#Pancakes #Law #In-laws

"One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies."

--- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#Young Ladies #Girlhood #Demure

"After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted."

--- Abbe Pierre

#War #Speaks Out #Cardinals

"Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law."

--- Abbie Hoffman

#Justice #Law #Expedience

"I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child."

--- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#Understood #Fewer #Law

"A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power for the accomplishment of almighty purposes, and whose immediate result, as regards man, is his recognition of God as the Supreme Ruler of all things, and of His will as the only supreme law."

--- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#Law #Force #Purpose

"And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow."

--- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#Kingdom Of God #Salvation #Elevation

"Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free"

--- Abd-ru-shin

#Law #Men #He Man

"If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent."

--- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Accord #Knowledge #Importance

"Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms"

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Love #Cycles #Magnetic

"And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Fundamentals #Covenant #Fundamental Principles

"How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them."

--- Abdul Kalam

#Action #Law #Mechanism

"A Muslim is a person who follows Allah's laws without question. Sharia is our law. No interpretation is needed, nor are laws made by men. Allah is the only lawmaker."

--- Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

#Made #Lawmakers #Needed

"The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law."

--- Abdul Sattar Edhi

#People #Today #Law

"This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law."

--- Abdus Salam

#Creation #Superiors #Law

"Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence."

--- Abe Fortas

#People #Alternatives #Justice

"Labor is the law of happiness."

--- Abel Stevens

#Law #Labor

"Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of "doubt" at all regarding his guilt or innocence."

--- Aberjhani

#Justice #Asks #Technicalities

35 "Law" Quotes