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“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Martin Luther King
“Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty.
Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace.
Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.”
Lin Yutang
“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
Albert Einstein
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
Albert Einstein
“Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.”
Plato
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Mark Twain
“The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.”
Lao Tzu
“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”
Antonio Gaudi
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
Frank Zappa
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Robert Frost
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
Confucius
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Taste cannot be controlled by law.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.”
Phyllis Diller
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”
Stephen Hawking
“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.”
Horace
“Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”
Horace
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
Plato
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”
Plato
“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
Karl Marx
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
Aristotle
“The law is reason, free from passion.”
Aristotle
“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
Aristotle
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
Aristotle
