The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night–because morals are...

We have taken active steps in imposing the rule of law and public order and ban armed demonstrations,

In times of war, the law falls silent.Silent enim leges inter arma

The people’s good is the highest law.

¡Creedlo, ciudadanos, aquel a quien la espada material de las leyes no detiene tampoco se detendrá por el temor moral de los suplicios del infierno, de los que se burla desde su infancia!. En una...

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.But if innocence itself is...

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don’t get away with it.

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (…): the absurd pretension that human...

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

We have grave concerns that the court will not provide the fair trial guarantees required by international law, … But it’s not too late for the tribunal’s judges to fix some of these problems if...

The relevant department has acted in straight accordance with law and exercised humanitarianism,

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value; as...

I may wish to return to my home in England, and I stand in New York, but ever since I was born I have been bound to this earth by a law that I have...

Maintaining a fair and accessible justice system should at all times be the overarching concern of Government

Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

There are some counties out there that feel this is a law they just don’t like and so they are not going to go along with it.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially; this reasoning that such relationships have long-existed and are very important—even eternal to...

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn’t really have enough of that.

I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It’s not a good place to be, unfortunately.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.

Under current law, the only way an airline can avoid burdensome pension costs is by entering bankruptcy and terminating the plans.

There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity’s control.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government… Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

George Bush, on the other hand, fought this law all along until his position became politically untenable. And now he’s doing his best to violate the spirit of campaign finance reform by staking his re-election...

The law of large numbers was already baked into most estimates out there, including mine. You have to wonder, is he signaling anything beyond that? Is the first quarter going to be softer than people...

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families...

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used...

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

It does provide for those within the Serbian regime who are interested in protecting the rule of law in their own country that Milosevic is not the person who can do that,

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying...

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to...

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time,...

That’s what everyone thinks–they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that’s not true. You know it isn’t. It’s about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will...

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.

There’s no established law on this issue. It’s very likely this will be a precedent-setting case.

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

We should be in pretty good shape from a law enforcement standpoint as we move forward.

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that’s...

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to...