L Quotes
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“Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty, safety, stability, and responsibility - that every person will attain his real worth and the true dignity of his being. It is only under this law of justice that mankind will achieve - slowly, no doubt, but certainly - God's design for the orderly and peaceful progress of humanity.”
“Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was confined only to suppressing injustice.”
Source: The Law
“Law is like a band-aid. Band-aids don't heal the wound, they only prevent further infection while your natural immune system does the healing. Likewise, law doesn't cure crime, it only keeps crime in check, while individual accountability treats the inhumanity that causes crime. And at some point the band-aid must come off, because, just like a body covered in band-aid is the sign of a sick person, a society covered in law is the sign of a sick species.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Law is mind without reason.”
“Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.”
Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”
“Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.”
“Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.”
“Law is not meant to govern the rich, but is meant to govern the poor. That is why rich people always do what they want and can even undermine the law anytime they want. Nothing will be done to them, because the law was designed to protect them from the poor.”
“Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.”
Source: The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path
“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.”
“Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.”
“Law is order, and good law is good order.”
Source: Politics
“Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.”
Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.”
“Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.”
“Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.”
Source: Cicero
“Law is the historical antithesis of order.”
Source: OFF GRID: How Long Can They Hide From The Surveillance State?
“Law is the rudder of the ship of state.”
“Law is the safest helmet.”
Source: The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
“Law is the ultimate science.”
Source: DUNE
“Law is there to enforce punishment, that's why it's called law enforcement. Civilians are meant to stand dutybound for order, that's why it's called civic duty, my friend.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.”
“Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept”
Source: Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law
“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
“Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.”
“Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.”
Source: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
“Law looked dumbstruck, almost angry. He breathed, "Son of a bitch." And to Tom's surprise, Law got down on one knee and took his hand. "Tom, you beloved bastard, I love you. I need you in my life forever. I cannot imagine existence without you. Will you-God please say yes-grant me the honor and the privilege and save my life and marry me?”
Source: Force of Law
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
“Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.”
“Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Law must be just and fair. If law favors others and oppresses the rest. If it is applied to certain individuals and not applied to all, then it is not the law, but dictatorship and autocracy.”
“Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.”
“Law must never be taken as gospel – today's law may become tomorrow's crime, today's crime may become tomorrow's law.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone.
— Gowachin aphorism”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment
“Law never is, but is always about to be.”
Source: The Nature of the Judicial Process
“Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.”
“Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.”
“Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.”
“Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.”
“Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.”
“Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.”
“Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.”
“Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.”
“Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.”
“Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.”