L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.”
Source: Star King
“Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.”
“Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.”
“Law dies, books never.”
“Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud.”
“Law enforcement are the public face of corrupt corporate governments.”
“Law enforcement does counter political extremism here in the United States in the exact same way that they do political extremists who are infiltrated into the United States, who may come from a religious motivation, as we saw overseas in Europe. But the same methodologies have to be used.”
“Law enforcement exists to ensure the safety of the public, but if the public are primitive enough to think that all they need to ensure their safety is a personal firearm, then we better destroy all things civilized and head back to the jungle, because a society where anybody can own a gun is not a society, but a jungle anyways.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish.”
“Law enforcement in America is a force for good.”
“Law enforcement is hired to enforce the law. You call them in to deal with situations you cannot deal with or do not want to deal with. When they arrive – let them do their job. You know who you called them for before they got there. Enough said.”
“Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.”
“Law enforcement officers have an established history of lying to fraudulently convict innocent people.”
“Law enforcement officers have weaponized drinking water!”
“Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970
“Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.”
“Law enforcement responding with silence regarding crimes reported by the public is a form of mistreatment.”
“Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant.”
Source: Warning! Proceed With Caution Into the Practice of Law
“Law gave us Crime
Science gave us Forensics
Research gave us Hope”
Source: Dader Onbekend
“Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.”
“Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.”
“Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.”
“Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.”
Source: The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts
“Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.”
Source: A treatise on political economy
“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”
“Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.”
Source: Theological texts
“Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.”
“Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.”
Source: Enchiridion
“Law is a bottomless pit.”
“Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.”
Source: History of John Bull
“Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.”
“Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.”
“Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.”
“Law is a very addictive profession.”
“Law is always better than war.”
“Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.”
“Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.”
“Law is born from despair of human nature.”
“Law is but a heathen word for power.”
Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt
“Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.”
“Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.”
Source: The Gone-Away World
“Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.”
“Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.”
“Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.”
“Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It’s equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.”
Source: Halo: Mortal Dictata