Law Quotes - Page 197

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published decision, it becomes virtually like a statute. Everybody is suppose to follow that law. Whether I decide to allow a law to become a law without my signature is simply in effect expressing a view that while I don't particularly care for this, the Legislature passed it, it was an overwhelming. vote, or maybe there were other reasons. But my decision not to sign doesn't have to be followed by everybody from that point on

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.