3,047 Quotes About Law

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

It is very important now to have a lot of patience, self-restraint, and cool-headedness, ... In other words, no one should take the law in their hands.

You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

I wonder why law schools waited so long to welcome women?

The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.

People think the (bankruptcy) law is going to be repealed on Oct. 17. It's not.