Law Quotes - Page 6

• The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

  William James

  God, Science, Doe

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 20 (1902)

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• Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Law And Justice, Bad Man

  "The works of Walter Savage Landor". Edited by J. Forster,

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• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Respect, Politics

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Two, Heaven

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Names, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

  John Adams

  Ideas, Evil, Mind

  "John Adams: Quotes & Facts". Book by Blago Kirov, 2016.

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• The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Equality, Men

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• Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

  John Adams

  Education, Wise, Learning

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.284

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• There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

  Dorothy Height

  Rights, Enforcement, Contradiction

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• Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Judging, Police, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Equality, Availability

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• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  Edmund Burke

  Giving, Community, Dresses

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.285, Penguin

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• The law of England is a law of liberty .

  Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

  Liberty, England

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• Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

  John F. Kennedy

  Community, Shadow, Shells

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.

  Mary Burnett Talbert

  Greatness, Rights, Enforcement

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Men, Doe

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• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

  Aleister Crowley

  Political, Politics, Free Will

  Book of the Law (1909)

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

  Charles Dickens

  Principles, Bleak House, Consistently

  Bleak House ch. 39 (1853)

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• Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Physicians, Superstitions

  "An Introduction to the History of Medicine". Book by Fielding Hudson Garrison, 1913.

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• People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Hands, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

  James A. Garfield

  Science, Government, Statistics

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on

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• If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Organization, Relax

  Esther Hicks' remarks at the workshop in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 21, 2002.

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• World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

  U Thant

  Heart, Order, Vision

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Sacred, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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