3,047 Quotes About Law

If changing judges changes law, then it is not clear what law is.

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify our actions away, but deep down, we know when we've done something wrong.

Our honour is that we make the law to violate and break it, and we stay to do that.

To respond in kind to the violence of apartheid was just wrong. Terrorism was based on the use of indiscriminate violence, directed at civilian people because they happened to belong to a particular group, race, or community. [...] It was completely antithetical to our ideals. We were fighting for justice against the system of white supremacy, not against a race.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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.

I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.

Quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt?