Law Quotes
An unjust law is no law at all.
St. Augustine of Hippo
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
Paolo Bacigalupi
A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.
Henry Brougham
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
Paolo Bacigalupi
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
Aristotle
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Aeschylus
The Laws ought to be so framed, as to secure the Safety of every Citizen as much as possible.
Catherine II of Russia; Catherine the Great
Law can change how people behave when others are watching that's all.
Orson Scott Card
You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
Orson Scott Card
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
