3,047 Quotes About Law

No doubt you’ve heard the phrase 'ignorance of the law is no excuse’, and are probably familiar with the statist meaning of that phrase: Being ignorant of a law is no excuse for breaking it. However 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' also has a less-well-known libertarian meaning: This is an ignorant law and there’s no excuse for it!

An important sign of the collapse of the rule of law is the rise of a paramilitary and its merger with government power.

Antes bien, debemos odiarnos a nosotros mismos, por no ser dignos aun de tener ley

If you keep on hiding and defending a criminal. One day the criminal will steal your life from you or the life of people you love.

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

Hii ni sheria ya akili yangu: Akili yangu ni muhimu kuliko familia yangu. Nisipoitunza vizuri akili yangu, sitaitunza vizuri familia yangu.

Did reiser og nogle Mænd aarlig af stæd,Som skal for Laugmanden aflegge sin Eed, Laug-Rættes-Mænd Loven dem nævner; Om hver den der sværger, forstaar sig derpaa, Det lader jeg denne gang u-omtalt staa, Til Dagen naar HErren indstævner.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.