3,047 Quotes About Law

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.