Law quotes

“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.” Jon Stewart

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.” Angelina Jolie

“I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.” Angelina Jolie

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” Jonathan Swift

“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.” Jonathan Swift

“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.” Rabindranath Tagore

“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.” Walt Whitman

“Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.” Alan Watts

“There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.” Lance Armstrong

“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.” John Adams

“A government of laws, and not of men.” John Adams

“The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.” John Adams

“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.” Lucille Ball

“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” Edmund Burke

“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” Edmund Burke

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.” Edmund Burke

“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.” Edmund Burke

“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.” Edmund Burke

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.” Edmund Burke

“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.” Edmund Burke

“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” Robert Browning

“Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” Ambrose Bierce

“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.” Ambrose Bierce

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” Aleister Crowley