3,047 Quotes About Law

A late justice is a lame justice.

The Golden Rule is clear: do not sound like a lawyer any more than is absolutely necessary.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. What are the consequences of such a perversion? ... In the first place, it erases from everyone's conscience the distinction between justice and injustice...When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Do laws make Americans virtuous? We might as well ask if red lights stop cars.

People deserve to know about that. They need to understand, not so that they can pity the region, but simply because it helps to explain so much of the way Kurdistan has tried to improve itself afterwards. They need to understand to stop it from ever happening again. They need to understand, because it is unacceptable that a genocide that was essentially ignored by many countries around the world at the time should be continued to be ignored by history

There is a sincere way of conducting every case. Find it.

[t]he three fates that haunt the halls of justice of scandalous, frivolous and vexatious.

Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills

Ο Νόμος που είμαι δεν θα με υποτάξει: The Law I am will not subdue me.