3,047 Quotes About Law

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and prediction could be based on laws which accounted for the observed phenomena as functions of comparatively few variables-either particular facts or relative frequencies of events.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

Feare, the Bedle of the Law.

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

is the standard for preemption under international law.