473 quotes found
“The provisions for the poor which structure both land ownership and the sacred calendar in ancient Israel, the rights of gleaners and of those widows, orphans, and strangers who pass through the fi...”
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
“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...”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“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.”
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. ”
“Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice”
“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 prosecuto...”
“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 ...”
“Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.”
“The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?”
“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.”
“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. Popular aphorism.”
“We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.”
“If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”
“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.”
“Im seventeen years old, my name is Juan Garca Madero, and Im 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. Im an orphan...”
“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 frau...”
“Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ”
