3,047 Quotes About Law




  • Author Mockingbird
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    Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not on how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief effect is accusation the intimation of a less-than.

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  • Author Trevor D. Richardson
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    I think the idea that we have anything to begin with is a lie we tell ourselves every day until we believe it. I think the law is there to enforce fictions that would not exist otherwise. Certain laws prevent us from deviating from those fictions, and thrive as a framework for the lifestyle we are all required to live. I believe that the reason possession is nine-tenths of the law is that without those laws there wouldn’t be any possession at all.

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  • Author Rui Barbosa
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    To see triumph the nullities, see prosper the dishonor, see grow the injustice, to see agglomerate powers in the hands of the wicked, the man comes to discourage the virtue, laughing at the honor, ashamed to be honest.

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  • Author Rui Barbosa
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    The lawyer is not worth in the calm times; his great role is when he must take the power of the despots, presenting before the courts the supreme character of free peoples.

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