Law Quotes

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. (Aristotle)
Law is order, and good law is good order. View quote
Aristotle
Good people do not need law to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. View quote
Plato
The safety of the people shall be the highest law. View quote
Cicero
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law. View quote
Montesquieu
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. View quote
Immanuel Kant
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion. View quote
William Blake
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. (Vladimir Putin)
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. View quote
Edward Weston
Order is natures first law. View quote
Alexander Pope
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it. View quote
Daniel Webster
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. View quote
Norman Mailer
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. View quote
William Cobbett
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. (Lawrence Lessig)
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other. View quote
Richard Bach
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. View quote
Edith Wharton
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