3,047 Quotes About Law

Journalists must uphold democracy; they are its fourth and last pillar

Law must be just and fair. If law favors others and oppresses the rest. If it is applied to certain individuals and not applied to all, then it is not the law, but dictatorship and autocracy.

It affirmed that international law was not only law 'between States' but 'also the law of mankind'. Those who transgressed it would have no immunity, even if they were leaders, a reflection of the 'outraged conscience of the world'.

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him.

A people, not a parchment, and not a Supreme Court, must be the Constitution. The people are the walking, talking, living Constitution. Positive liberty is all about enshrining the Constitution in the citizens themselves. They live and breathe it, and always know how to do right by it.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

For handling the violence within me, there is a special department inside me called the power of mind, whereas for handling the violence within others, there is a special department outside me called the power of law

The Freedom of Speech will always be mightier than any small minded censor no matter the flavor of their ignorance.

Occupational Safety & Health Administration's (OSHA) lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.