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— Madeleine L'Engle
There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr., Loving God with All Your Mind: Thinking as a Christian in a Postmodern World
It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy
—  it is absolutely essential to it.
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
— Carl Sagan
The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.
— Christopher Moore
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
— Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
— Anne Bishop, Heir to the Shadows
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
— Jonathan Swift
My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.
— Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.
— Swami Vivekananda, Letters of Swami Vivekananda
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.
— Jimmy Carter
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
— Winston S. Churchill
Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.
— Richard M. Nixon
And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. 
— Will Rogers
The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. "Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?" "Yes, Your Honor.""Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
— Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon
Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties
There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.
— Amy Harmon, The Law of Moses
I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.
— Charles Bukowski
As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary
— William S. Burroughs
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.
— Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.
— Paul   Newman
For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.
— Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
I don't know who made the laws
—  But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.
— Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly.The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.
— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
— Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. 
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
— Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
— John  Adams, The Portable John Adams
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
— R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
— Jack Vance
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
— Alec Baldwin, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
— Voltaire
How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.
— Neal Shusterman, Unwind
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.
— Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.
— Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn't the young who corrupt the old, rather it's the inverse.The aim of the old should be to ensure that the young grow up incorruptible.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.
— Mark R. Levin
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. 
— Richard Lamm
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.
— Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
— Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma", he said, "if it was the law they was workin' with, why we could take it. But it ain't the law. They're a-working away at our spirits. They're a-tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They're tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're working on our decency".
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. 
— William Penn
Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.
— Lawrence Joseph, Lawyerland: An Unguarded, Street-Level Look At Law & Lawyers Today
Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.
— Dimitri A. Bogazianos, 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
— Felix Frankfurter
Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.
— Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
— Ammon Hennacy
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
— John Marshall
Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend
—  law serves power
That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.
— Scott Snyder, American Vampire, Vol. 2
Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
— Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some level of our brains, is that we have to imagine everything coming apart. ... It's what we are. Out of control, always prepared, Boy Scout control freaks.
— Lawrence Joseph, Lawyerland: An Unguarded, Street-Level Look At Law & Lawyers Today
Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.
— Walter Van Tilburg Clark
By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.
— Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
— David Brin, Tomorrow Happens
I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He'd been injured during the robbery, so they put him in hospital to make him better so that they could make him worse. During the administration of the cat, he fainted after six strokes, and the doctor put him in hospital again. And he got very friendly with the nurses and the doctors, and after a while they got him well enough to go back and take the next six strokes. I saw him afterward and I said: "Oh, Jesus—that bloody law, that bloody judge!" But he said: "I don't want the fellow who made the law, and I don't want the fellow who passed the sentence. All I want is the fellow who held the bloody whip.
— Peter O'Toole
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.
— Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
— Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility" (The Ten Commandments, 10).
— J. Douma
If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it.
— G.K. Chesterton
I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.
— Dean Koontz, Watchers
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
— John Marshall
If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.
— Hersch Lauterpacht
Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.
— H.C. Nicholas
When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.
— Natalya Vorobyova, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. And then, when he loses and when he's weak, he invokes the law and tolerance of differences. All of a sudden, he knows by heart every single human rights convention he broke so many times before.
— Andrej Nikolaidis
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
— Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
With you it is always the law, never equity.
— Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
— Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
[Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail.
— Jim Powell
We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.
— Walter Van Tilburg Clark
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.
— Patricia J. Williams
Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it.""What weapon is that?" Della Street asked."The truth," Mason said.
— Erle Stanley Gardner
A state which savagely represses or persecutes sections of its people cannot in my view be regarded as observing the rule of law, even if the transport of the persecuted minority to the concentration camp or the compulsory exposure of female children on the mountainside is the subject of detailed laws duly enacted and scrupulously observed.
— Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law
Approaching a police car is a very dangerous activity to engage in.
— Steven Magee
Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.
— Steven Magee
I am far more fearful of the police than I am of North Korea.
— Steven Magee
At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do
— Paul Clement
The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement badge.
— Steven Magee
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.
— Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
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— My Law Tutors
We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane phrases to express commonplace ideas. Seeking to be precise, we become redundant. Seeking to be cautious, we become verbose. Our sentences twist on, phrase within clause within clause, glazing the eyes and numbing the minds of our readers. The result is a writing style that has, according to one critic, four outstanding characteristics. It is (1) wordy, (2) unclear, (3) pompous, and (4) dull.
— Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers
The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites
— Agona Apell
There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher." - Malcolm Fade
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.
— George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address
The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law’s officers, which may at times assail the most honest.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
To exist as an interpreter of the law, you first have to follow that law yourself. Law is the glue that holds society together. It's flawed, but absolute, and corruption only hinders its progress.
— Rebecca McNutt
Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.
— Catherine Aird, Passing Strange
I never violate my oaths or my codes... Only international laws.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury
While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far from being so. Rather, the boundary becomes further and further indented and folded over time, yielding a jagged and complicated border, rather than a clear straight line. In the end, the law turns out to look like a fractal: no matter how much you zoom in on such a shape, there is always more unevenness, more detail to observe. Any general rule must end up dealing with exceptions, which in turn split into further exceptions and rules, yielding an increasingly complicated, branching structure.
— Samuel Arbesman, Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
— Steven Magee
Only the Army conducts an annual assessment, and they appear to do relatively little to analyze the problem, contributions to the problem, and potential solutions.
— Carter F. Smith, Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training
THE MAIN DUTY OF LAW enforcement is law breaking. Right now the disciplined forces jobs are the reserve of the ‘elite’ and security has little meaning, money is the arbiter of law breaking.
— Vincent de Paul, Flashes of Vice: Vol III
God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.
— Bryan Chapell, Unlimited Grace: The Heart Chemistry That Frees from Sin and Fuels the Christian Life
Animalsfattened for your for your arena suffered lessthan you in dying-yours the lawlessnessof something simple that has lost its law,my namesake, and the last Caligula.
— Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead
The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.
— David McCullough, John Adams
It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights.
— Steven Magee
Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments.
— Steven Magee
When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to you.
— Steven Magee
The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law.
— Steven Magee
Frequent suggestions were made during the course of the trial that the motives of the donor and the donees alike, in carrying out this transaction, were to escape death duties. I feel constrained to dispose once and for all of these suggestions by the short answer that the existence or otherwise of such motives is irrelevant, excep as evidence for or against the bona fides of the transactions. There is the highest authority for the proposition that, if a man can lawfully so order his affairs that the payment of revenue duties of any kind is reduced or avoided altogether, there is no legal objection to his doing so. Whatever may be thought as the the morality of such transactions in these times from the point of view of patriotism and public spirit, there is no ground for ignoring their legal effect, unless such transactions be proved to be amere sham, such as those falling within the words 'not bona fide' in the act of 1894, or the phrase 'artificial transaction' in the Finance Acts of more recent years.Attorney General vs. Goneril Albany in re the estate of King Lear, MORE LEGAL FICTIONS
— A. Laurence Polak
It is the church that must proclaim the law out of Zion
— Sunday Adelaja
To violate kingdom law is to bring negative consequences
— Sunday Adelaja
It is costly when not abiding by God’s law
— Sunday Adelaja
The More Citizens Conform To The Law Of Love. The Less Governing Would Be Required
— Sunday Adelaja
To Partake In The Consequence of A Law Is To Violate It
— Sunday Adelaja
The best is to prioritize kingdom laws and principles
— Sunday Adelaja
To expose kingdom law violators is to understand kingdom law
— Sunday Adelaja
The law works in mysterious ways
— Kenneth Eade, And Justice?
The law itself was originally created in order to protect property. However, the law has been falsely attributed to being the reason property exists in the first place. At least, this is what the state would have us believe. The law does not create property rights because these already existed before the law was created. It is this false attribution that allows the state apparatus to conduct its mission of expropriation.
— Daniel Alexander Brackins, Private Property, Law, and the State
Every law requires a response
— Sunday Adelaja
It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins
— Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process
A government of laws, and not of men.
— John Adams
One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.
— Robert K. Tanenbaum, The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer
Sam Temple was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Los Angeles, where there were specialists there in burn injuries. He wasn’t consulted: he was found on his knees, obviously in shock, extensively burned. EMTs took over.Astrid Ellison was taken to a hospital in Santa Barbara, as was Diana Ladris.Other kids were shared out among half a dozen hospitals. Some specialized in plastic surgery, others in the effects of starvation.Over the next week all were seen by psychiatrists once their immediate physical injuries were addressed. Lots of psychiatrists. And when they weren’t being seen by psychiatrists, they were being seen by FBI agents, and California Highway Patrol investigators, and lawyers from the district attorney’s office.The consensus seemed to be that a number of the Perdido survivors, as they were now known, would be prosecuted for crimes ranging from simple assault to murder.First on that list was Sam Temple.
— Michael  Grant, Light
It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.
— Steven Magee
If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.
— Steven Magee
Somewhat, lawbreakers are lawmakers for they give lawmakers real reasons to make and strengthen laws
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.
— Wolf DeVoon
It doesn’t matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences.
— Sunday Adelaja
To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God
— Sunday Adelaja
He that discovers and defines law is law abiding
— Sunday Adelaja
...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School).
— J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Obey the law and be someone else biatch.
— Deyth Banger
If you are uncomfortable with any law or procedure, propose a motion for its amendment. Until it is amended, going against it for whatever purpose automatically makes one a rebel
— OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Today, heâ€™d observed them seize a woman whoâ€™d gotten pregnant with an unregistered child. Thereâ€™d be no chance at lenience. She would be Confined until she gave birth, the child would be placed in the Councilâ€™s care, and the mother would be executed. The ship could only support a certain number of lives, and allowing anyone to disrupt the delicate balance would jeopardize the entire race.
— Kass Morgan, The 100
Law of conservation of energy â€“ Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed. Same thing is with the good and Evil. They say Evil is rising day by day. But if we believe science, Good is also increasing at the same pace to maintain the balance. So the universe is as good as it was at the time of Lord Ram or Jesus.
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
The fundamental premise that all are equal under and before the law and all are entitled to the equal protection and the equal benefit of the law and when that is put in place, the law enforcement becomes manageable because just laws foster compliance, do not require coercion.
— George Stamatis
Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
— John Marshall Harlan
The sure guaranty of the peace and security of each race is the clear, distinct, unconditional recognition by our governments, national and state, of every right that inheres in civil freedom, and of the equality before the law of all citizens of the United States, without regard to race. State enactments regulating the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race, and cunningly devised to defeat legitimate results of the war, under the pretense of recognizing equality of rights, can have no other result than to render permanent peace impossible, and to keep alive a conflict of races, the continuance of which must do harm to all concerned.
— John Marshall Harlan
In a democracy, we should be reluctant to take any action that amounts to an attempt to coerce the majority, for such attempts imply the rejection of majority rule, to which there is no acceptable alternative. There may, of course, be cases where the majority decision is so appalling that coercion is justified, whatever the risk. The obligation to obey a genuine majority decision is not absolute. We show our respect for the principle, not by blind obedience to the majority, but by regarding ourselves as justified in disobeying only in extreme circumstances.
— Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the established decision procedure and the laws are held. By disobeying, I set an example to others that may lead them to disobey too.
— Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Political problems ruin meals. Let it be known as Ericâ€™s Law of Lunch henceforth.
— Garon Whited
This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. Heâ€™d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously â€“ which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors werenâ€™t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
Law should be a literary profession,' RGB says, 'and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft.
— Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Privacyâ€™ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the law with no hindrance. That resonates with everyone.
— Danny MekiÄ‡
The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.
— John Hart, Redemption Road
If we conform our behavior to Godâ€™s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with Godâ€™s eternal moral law.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Sed lex dura lex," said Jace automatically. "The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
It was not the job of a litigator to determine facts
—  it was his job to construct a story from those facts by which a clear moral conclusion would be unavoidable.
I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
There is no shortage of despicable law enforcement departments in the USA.
— Steven Magee
If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws.
— Steven Magee
The highest law in nature is love yourself, and seek your own interests before anything else
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Those who live by God's law will walk through the rough roads of life shielded by God's love and faithfulness. Psalm 25:10.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2 (Read Chapter One): Preparing for God's Paradise
the perhaps rather prosaic truth that law is an imperfect yet indispensable vehicle by which both to conserve and transform society
— Raymond Wacks, Law: A Very Short Introduction
Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA.
— Steven Magee
Arguably insane utility workers that blatantly harass law abiding customers is likely to become more frequent as the long term effects of biologically toxic radio frequency (RF) radiation exposures from their transmitting smart meters continues to emerge.
— Steven Magee
Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud.
— Steven Magee
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment
— Thomas Jefferson
When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or incompetent police officer, the statistics show that it is the common person that most frequently loses.
— Steven Magee
The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark
— John Connolly, The Unquiet
If our leaders ignore the rule of law, it is certain that they have broken the social contract. The social contract is not a declaration of a lasting war but of a lasting peace who's regulation is charged by the will of the people under the rule of law. I pray the we are wise enough to keep our moral compass.
— R.A.Delmonico
All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work.
— R.A.Delmonico
Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.
— Steven Magee
Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.
— Peter F. Lake
...it is crucial to realize that an once of student affairs administration prevention can stave off a pound of lawyers.
— Peter F. Lake
OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.
— Steven Magee
An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism!
— Phineas Flynn
Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there I be buried.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.
— Stacey  Lee, Outrun the Moon
The lower classes of people in Europe may at some future periodbe much better instructed than they are at present; they may be taughtto employ the little spare time they have in many better ways than atthe ale-house; they may live under better and more equal laws than theyhave ever hitherto done, perhaps, in any country; and I even conceive itpossible, though not probable that they may have more leisure; but it isnot in the nature of things that they can be awarded such a quantity ofmoney or subsistence as will allow them all to marry early, in the fullconfidence that they shall be able to provide with ease for a numerousfamily.
— Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.
— James Hickey, Charity's Stone
Miscarriages of justice review centre is a task that ought to be replicated everyother places globally because many people has been victims of miscarriages of justices and I must commend the sagacity towards the establishment of the review centre at The University of Sheffield and it's no doubt going to give a lot of people opportunity for Justice.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
There is a difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
— R.J. Torbert, No Mercy
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!
— Deyth Banger
So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy!
— Deyth Banger
I was once in San Francisco, and I parked in the only available space, which happened to be on the other side of the street. The law descended on me. Was I aware of how dangerous the manoeuvre I’d just made was? I looked at the law a bit blankly. What had I done wrong? I had, said the law, parked against the flow of traffic. Puzzled, I looked up and down the street. What traffic? I asked. The traffic that would be there, said the law, if there was any traffic. This was a bit metaphysical, even for me, so I explained, a bit lamely, that in England we just park wherever we can find a parking space available, and weren’t that fussy about which side of the street it was on. He looked at me aghast, as if I was lucky to have got out of a country of such wild and crazy car parkers alive, and promptly gave me a ticket. Clearly he would rather have deported me before my subversive ideas brought chaos and anarchy to streets that normally had to cope with nothing more alarming than a few simple assault rifles. Which, as we know, in the States are perfectly legal, and without which they would be overrun by herds of deer, overbearing government officers, and lawless British tea importers.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Am I suggesting that you must feel sorry for divorce lawyers and prepare to pay every penny of their fees? Of course not! You deserve justice, and the lawyer can be lured into delivering said justice at a seriously discounted price!
— Portia Porter, Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? Tales of How Cunning Clients Can Get Free Legal Work, as Told by an Experienced Divorce Attorney
Don't Cry for this biatch, don't cry for this moron. She isn't your type, she doesn't like you and she won't like you she is just a person which is hypocrite and she get's envy when she see your life - How wonderful is it, how is full with loads stuff and then she looks her life. Full of horror, full of days of nightmare, full of days of angry people shouting each other...It's not in the blame, it's in the cases, the place where the two persons live!Don't get angry that he have left you, maybe you will find something better than him, it's a fact you give something for something. Everywhere is like this, don't listen this outside biatches which say "The World isn't a business, it's not you must..." Fucking bullshit, you must do this, somebody saves your life you must go and save and his, that's the rules, that's the law of the attraction, that's how it works, liked or not...
— Deyth Banger
Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice, in which the people do not feel themselves secure in the possession of their property, in which the faith of contracts is not supported by law, and in which the authority of the state is not supposed to be regularly employed in enforcing the payment of debts from all those who are able to pay. Commerce and manufactures, inshort, can seldom flourish in any state in which there is not a certain degree of confidence in the justice of government.
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.
— Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case
There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.
— John Baker
I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.
— Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
Our honour is that we make the law to violate and break it, and we stay to do that.
— Ehsan Sehgal
The laws are made to be broken,... if nobody will break them why they are made???
— Deyth Banger
Life is a circle, like it or not that's the law.
— Deyth Banger
It's kind of funny to me listening to people who claim to have these great records of winning a hundred and some odd straight felony cases without a loss and that kind of stuff that you hear of all the time. I'm here to tell you, if you let me pick out which hundred cases I get to try, I'll win a hundred of them in a row, too. Case selection is everything in creating records like that. My philosophy was, I tried them all. If I made a determination that the evidence was sufficient to justify the prosecution, then I would try the case, and certainly whenever you do that, you're going to lose a certain percentage of them.
— Mark     Baker, D.A.: Prosecutors in Their Own Words
ANTONIO PONTÓN’S TRIAL made front page headlines across major newspapers. On April 17, 1915, the Schenectady Gazette headline read, “Trial of Ponton on the Charge of Committing one of Most Startling Murders in History of County.
— Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, Antonio's Will
If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.
— C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible: A Reader's Edition
The Fourth Amendment wasn't written for people with nothing to hide any more than the First Amendment was written for people with nothing to say.
— Dave Krueger
Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position.
— Franz Kafka, The Trial
Love rules through Law. Love is the Divine Givingness
—  Law is the Way. Love is spontaneous
The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!
— C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible: A Reader's Edition