3,047 Quotes About Law

Which is more just? A law for humanity or a law for a country? Any law that flies in the face of humanity is unjust. Slavery was an unjust law and it was a law against humanity.

Once outside the law you're all the way outside. You think he's just a gambler. I think he's a pornographer, a blackmailer, a hot car broker, a killer by remote control, and a suborner of crooked cops. He's whatever looks good to him, whatever has the cabbage pinned to it. Don't try to sell me on any high-souled racketeers. They don't come in that pattern.

Once drawn, a sword must taste blood or be forfeit. That was our law, our code, and these were easy kills.

Shouting ‘Gun! Gun! Gun!’ is a police officers license to kill.

The police need to stop blatantly lying to the public.

Dynamic expression is more meaningful than static law by orders of magnitude.

...our objective at trial is not the ultimate truth but an opinion in our favour.

We can’t escape territory; therefore, we can’t escape the law.

A man hits me--I hit the man a little harder--then he won't do it again.' Unfortunately he did do it again--a little harder still. The effort to hit harder carried on the action and reaction till society, hitting hardest of all, set up a system of legal punishment, of unlimited severity. It imprisoned, it mutilated, it tortured, it killed; it destroyed whole families, and razed contumelious cities to the ground.