3,047 Quotes About Law

God was not say, ‘I’m giving you these commands, and by keeping them you may become my people.’ He was saying, ‘I’m giving you these commands because you are my people.’ The law tells us how people who belong to God ought to live.

In other callings, in medicine for instance or the law, you are free to choose whether you will adopt them or not, but having chosen, you are free no longer. You are bound by the rules of your profession; a standard of conduct is imposed upon you. The pattern is predetermined. It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

When law and order fail; consequently, the mob verdict prevails; it is the collapse of a system of society.

There was a lesson to be learned in every gleaning, and today's was one she would not soon forget. The sanctity of the law...and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

What you call law is essentially the need of an uncivilized and unfree society. A truly civilized and free society needs no law.

The sanctity of the law . . . and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

Immigration detainees are the ghosts of real prisoners, being punished in advance for crimes that will demand a life sentence.

The majority is the effective, and powerful law, in a constructive way, or in a destructive way on this planet.

He'd tried following the law but the law just followed him until he felt like he was being hunted.