3,047 Quotes About Law

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

The will of the people is the best law.

I have no law degree. I never had a law degree. I don't know where that got started.

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.