Quotes about Law, page 2

By the same token it must follow that the state we now call a small state is in reality a power if it plays such a role in the development of civilization that it marches in the front ranks and wins victories in the fight for law which surpass...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about law

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about law

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

Quote by Aristotel about law

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Quote by Aristotel about law

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Quote by Aristotel about law

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about law

The law is reason, free from passion.

Quote by Aristotel about law

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Quote by George W. Bush about law

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about law

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Quote by Maria Callas about law

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

Quote by Albert Camus about law

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about law

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about law

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

Quote by Winston Churchill about law

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Quote by Charles Dickens about law

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law