T Quotes
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“The law is above the law, you know.”
Source: The Little Brothers
“The law is agnostic about truth.”
“The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.”
“The law is an accumulation of tireless attempts to block a man's desire to change life into an instant of poetry. Certainly it would not be right to let everybody exchange his life for a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. But the mass of men, lacking valor, pass away their lives without ever feeling the least touch of such a desire.”
Source: Runaway Horses
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
“The law is an amazing tool, but it has limits. Good people, on the other hand, don't have limits. The law is not in the business of forgiveness or redemption. The law cannot compel us to love each other or respect each other. It cannot cancel hate or conquer evil; teach grace or extinguish passions. The law cannot achieve these things, not by itself. It takes people -- brave and strong and extraordinary people.”
Source: Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
“The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!”
“The law is an ass, an idiot.”
“The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .”
“The law is an opinion with a gun.”
“The law is, at most times, the best measure of our limitations.”
“The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.”
“The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.”
“The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.”
“The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.”
“The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.”
“The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.”
“The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“The law is hard but it is the law.”
“The Law is hard, but it's the Law," Simon added in disgust. "So freaking what? If the Law is wrong, why not change it? Do you know what the world would look like if we were still following the laws made up back in the Dark Ages?"
"You know who else used to talk like that?" Jon asked ominously.
"Let me guess: Valentine." Simon scowled. "Because apparently in all of Shadowhunter history only one guy has bothered to ask any questions.”
Source: The Lost Herondale
“The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.”
“The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality.”
Source: A Patriot's Act
“The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.”
Source: Oathbringer
“The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be mitigated by mercy. And you don't get to mercy by a legal principle. You get to mercy by way of imagination, sympathy, tenderness of heart - which are not weaknesses.”
“THe law is ment to make us equal -- -- rich or poor, man or woman, baseline or mutant. Abandon it, subvert it, and the world becomes a jungle where only arbiter is power. That kind of worldis Elias Bogan's home.”
Source: X-Treme X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 1
“The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.”
Source: Leviathan
“The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.”
Source: Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
“The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.”
Source: A Man For All Seasons
“The Law is not a ladder set before unbelievers, inviting them to struggle and strive up it towards heaven. The is the patter of life given to those who have been redeemed by the blood of the lamb, so that they maybe like their God.”
Source: Covenant Foundations: Understanding the Promise–Keeping God of the Bible
“The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.”
“The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.”
“The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right.”
“The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.”
“The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.”
Source: Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties
“The law is not meant to be obeyed only when it favors you and you are comfortable with it, it is also to be obeyed when it does not favor you or you're not comfortable with it.”
“The law is not something holy, son. It's just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.”
Source: Shadows of Self
“The Law is not the same at morning and at night.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.”
Source: Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis
“The law is not to love power. The rule is to practice love in politics, then power will come at its own accord.”
“The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.”
Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe
“The law is reason unaffected by desire.”
Source: Politics
“The law is reason, free from passion.”
“The law is silent during war.
[Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]”
“The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.”
Source: Astonishing the Gods
“The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.”
“The law is so complex and voluminous
that no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand it
all. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their way
to make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legal
professionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try to
keep the law mysterious and inaccessible.”
“The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.”
“The law is that you
must live
in the house you have built.
The law is absurd: it is
written down nowhere.
You are uncertain what crime
is, though each life writhing to
elude what it has made
feels like punishment.”
Source: Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
“The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely”