My father wasn’t absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.

Jambazi aliyekubuhu hawezi kumuua mtu bila kumwambia kwa nini anamuua. Si sheria ya John Murphy. Ni sheria ya EAC.

hyperbolic” ethical vision of forgiveness’. Even if I were not sure of the words ‘vision’ or ‘ethics’ in this case, let us say that only this inflexible exigence can orient a history of laws, and...

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

Nobody should think that he is above the law. Hamas can compete through dialogue, and through political means. Everybody is requesting the PA to preserve law and order, and to build institutions; otherwise we are...

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

This court finds that Col. Milam and Lt. Col. Elmore were acting in the scope of their duties” in 1991-1992 when Capt. Mackey alleged they harassed, intimidated and assaulted her. A legislative remedy was asked...

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...

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

When you got Shutts and Bowen, you got Gray, Harris [& Robinson] law firm, you’ve got KMPG accountants; I don’t think you can go wrong when you’ve got some of the best in the business,...

Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhaps...

I’ve been compared to Jude Law my whole career.

There’s two sides to every coin. The prevailing wage law is there to protect the laborers. It’s there as a standard.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still...

Time is logic is time is the law which governs the universe.

We go after law enforcement where the American people say it ought to be,

The great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives...

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by ‘preventing worse language.’ In the military it would be...

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country’s regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little...

Law & order embrace on hate’s border.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power...

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it’s terrible politics. It’s a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

There are some issues that face local law enforcement especially in the rural areas the southwest United States and those have to be accounted for.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

The Defendant: I am pleading guilty your honors but I’m doing it because I think it would be a waste of money to have a trial over five dollars worth of crack. What I really...

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters...

There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor did the court find on the issue. Fiona Reay, a 33 year old...

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.”I shall be delighted.”You don’t mind breaking the law?”Not in the least.”Nor running a chance of arrest?”Not in a good cause.”Oh, the cause is excellent!”Then I am...

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

In this regard, we would like to note that, according to international law, full responsibility for taking care of Iraqis’ humanitarian needs rests first and foremost with the occupation authorities,

Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws?

Kuvunja sheria ni sawa na kufanya kosa, na kwa hiyo kuwa mkosaji, mbele ya sheria na mbele ya mungu.

The rape of justice anywhere ,violates justice everywhere

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

I hate neutrality becouse is the worst thing that ever happened

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Bush violated FISA […] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general ‘principle’ that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break...

It’s dangerous for both attorneys to have a wild card who thinks you can disregard the law.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life...

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law…

[Jürgen Habermas’ obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title ‘Wild Orchids and Trotsky.’ In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside...

The law is that the law will be broken.