Law Quotes - Page 98

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of nature to provide for the various exigencies of the sublunary creation, and to make the several parts dependent upon each other, so as to form one well-regulated system or whole.

Sometimes, it might be called conservative; sometimes it might be called liberal. But the point is that the meaning of the Constitution and other laws should not change unless we the people change them.

To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death.

For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only been counted in the census since the 1967 Referendum. Even so, State protection and welfare laws continued to control the lives of Indigenous Australians and denied them equal rights, well into the 1970's.