Legal/Law Quotes

Jai Ganesh · 2022-04-22 18:06:38

Legal/Law Quotes

1. It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

2. Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck

3. If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis

4. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire

5. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. - Abraham Lincoln

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

7. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. - Henry David Thoreau

8. Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain

9. If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. - Julius Caesar

10. 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

11. Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. - George Washington

12. Advertising is legalized lying. - H. G. Wells

13. Taste cannot be controlled by law. - Thomas Jefferson

14. 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 law. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

15. Laws, like houses, lean on one another. - Edmund Burke

16. I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care. - Nicole Kidman

17. Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. - Ayn Rand

18. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. - Bruce Willis

19. Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. - George Bernard Shaw

20. I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. - Paternity is a legal fiction. James Joyce

21. Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. - Tim Berners-Lee

22. My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded. - Ban Ki-moon

23. We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe. - Angela Merkel

24. In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. - Colin Powell

25. I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter. - John Grisham.

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