Law Quotes - Page 346

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

When we have laws that compartmentalize medical information, and when we have paper systems that compartmentalize medical information, you sometimes have a doctor who understands his specialty and is terrific on your kidneys, but he doesn't understand the totality of who you are.

See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets a tax incentive, provided the charity is registered in terms of the law.

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.

I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.