The law,” he continued, “is made by the rich people so that the poor people can’t get ahead…

We never suspected that Neil was anything other than a loving father, a trusted son-in-law and a husband. Neil betrayed our trust in so many different ways that it is almost impossible to describe.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and—most unforgivably—increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

The Supreme Court is composed of two groups known as the Infallible Five and the Furious Four. The first group writes those majority decisions on patent law that have brought patent lawyers to their present condition. The second groups writes the dissenting opinions, trying to hold to the law as it was laid down by...

Transplants should be arranged in accordance with law, and the general thinking behind it should be to save people’s lives first.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

In China, we practice the rule of law, … If you don’t violate the criminal code, you don’t get arrested.

The law in Athens is true in Rome

[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants; and that which is ordained by law is termed by them...

The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

a president [can] be considered to be above the law.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

But this is not how we read the law. We believe the way the law reads we can still qualify for both programs.

Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.

I’m not really interested in the case other than the way it might affect the law,

This law gives you the power to seek the release of Wallenberg, … The law makes no distinction between honorary and other citizens.

inside scoop” on firm politics was crucial to my own political survival. Once I figured this out, I made sure I not only exchanged information with other junior associates, but I also went out of my way to gather key insights from mid-level and senior associates, who typically knew more about the latest political maneuverings...

Some of the biggest losses we have taken are due to Iraqis’ committing serious violations of the law of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions by dressing as civilians and luring us into surrender situations and opening fire on our troops.

They just simply said that it looks like there are issues of constitutional law that should be looked at, but we just can’t take time to hear it because you’re going to be presenting too much stuff,

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to...

The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration given to a priori knowledge regarding the circumstances being presented and as a result, arguments must be made empirically, under the assumption that assumptions themselves are, in fact, likely to give...

I did not intentionally break the law but made a foolish mistake for which I have accepted responsibility. I am pleased the whole incident is now behind me and I can focus my attention on doing my best for Blackburn Rovers.

Not only do skeptics such as Lanning choose to ignore eyewitness/victim accounts of ritual criminal activity, they apparently also choose to overlook the significant number of cases of ritual abuse in which perpetrators have confessed to their crimes. In the Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993) study of 2,292 cases of ritual abuse, perpetrators in 30%...

It was originally laid out for law firms, so it’s a great building for law-type businesses and banks. But we’re not being exclusive.

How can you be a ‘Former-Father’? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply consign yourself to be effectively dead to your living children; as though the fact of being their father has somehow...

As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing ‘Gattaca’ because I’m a minimalist at heart, and it’s a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong?

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

At this point we can finally see what’s really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and slave, reduplicating the most brutal aspects of the ancient household in our very concept of ourselves, as masters of our freedoms, or as owners of our very selves. It is the only way...

I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies, as they do, and have changed their emotions, as they do — that they may once more return to life. I would be the last person on earth to close the door of...

Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as a nonsmoker pleases me, but as a Libertarian it pisses me off.

In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I’d pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain...

I don’t believe that intent is a requirement to find a criminal violation of this law. I believe that it is the act that creates the violation.

The law has been liberalized, but there’s still a law.

If the law doesn’t apply equally to everybody, then you don’t really have a system of law.

To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?””More than possible. Likely.

If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law,

All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.

… in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women’s experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee that the accused received a fair trial and the right of defence. This was the foundation of the Inquisition, and it was a move to organize, control, and limit violence, disruption, and division....

Vice President Cheney broke the law.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written in the Constitution, so you can’t fool around with it-and Bush refused to read it. The Oath of Of­fice says...