3,047 Quotes About Law

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

There are some new requirements, but I don't think that the gist of the old law has changed. They don't want quorums meeting (secretly), and we'll make sure that that doesn't happen.

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

It's all words, that's all the law is,

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.