Law Quotes

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. Thomas Fuller

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. Joseph Addison

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke

The more laws the more offenders. Thomas Fuller

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Honore de Balzac

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa

Every law is an infraction of liberty. Jeremy Bentham

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. Louis D Brandeis

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. Jean de la Bruyere

The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. Raymond Chandler

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. John Arbuthnot

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. John Locke

Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. Sophocles

The law is reason free from passion. Aristotle.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. Freda Adler

No civilization … would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other. Hannah Arendt

The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. James Madison

Law is born from despair of human nature. Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite. James Stephens.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. Robert F Kennedy

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. Bertolt Brecht

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage – the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Richard Hooker

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. Sir William Blackstone

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. Sir William Blackstone

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Earl Warren

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life – to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. Archibald MacLeish

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