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- Do not deny God.
- Do not blaspheme God.
- Do not murder.
- Do not engage in incest, adultery, pederasty or bestiality.
- Do not steal.
- Do not eat of a live animal.
- Establish courts/legal system to ensure obedience to the law.
- The Seven Noahide Laws.
- The law is a trade secret and the public process a business owned and operated by the legal profession.
- In America you are innocent until you run out of money.
- Patrick Eberhart
- Technology is a sprinter, the law is a marathon runner.
- A.K.T. Rex
- There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
- The law is what it is - a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
- Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
- Justice Felix Frankfurter.
- If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
- Instead of the law serving the people, it is the people that serve the law.
- The law is a bottomless pit.
- Legislate in haste, repent at leisure.
- proverb
- Covenants without the sword are but words.
- Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
- No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
- So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.
- Don Feder
- It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself.
- Justice Casey Percell
- More laws can't make us safe from the tragedies that are the inevitable result of freedom, and of living around other people. Life is real, life is uncertain, life is inevitably unsafe. Measures to make it safe at all costs come with dangers of their own.
- Brian Doherty
- There are no good laws except simple laws.
- Chrétien de Malesherbes (1775)
- No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
- Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart but they can restrain the heartless.
- Land is built by law.
- Old Swedish Law book
- Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
- If a law is unjust, we owe it to our children to disobey.
- Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise. To interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.
- Tis much more prudence to acquit two persons, though actually guilty, than to pass sentence of condemnation on one that is virtuous and innocent.
- Prisoner: I want to ask whether it is likely —
Arabin: We have nothing to do with what is likely or unlikely: so many unlikely things happen in courts of justice that public time must not be wasted on such enquiries.- Commissioner Serjeant William Arabin, quoted by Stephen Tumim in Great Legal Fiascos, page 115.
- Arabin's surreal absurdities from the bench at the Old Bailey in the early 1800s made him a cult figure among young barristers.
- Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law or one just like it, and come for you? And your children?
- Magneto X-Men (film)
- Note: "Magneto" is a fictional character, and is therefore not the author of this quote. BD2412 T 18:50, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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[[File:Kropotkin PA.jpg|thumb|If you analyze the law and strip off those cloudy fictions with which it has been draped in order to conceal its real origin, which is the right of the stronger, and its substance, which has ever been the consecration of all the tyrannies handed down to mankind through its long and bloody history; when you have comprehended this, your contempt for the law will be profound indeed. ~ [[Peter Kropotkin]]]] [[File:Nelson Mandela, 2000 (5).jpg|thumb|right|Equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed. ~ [[Nelson Mandela]]]] [[File:Buste-bastiat.JPG|thumb|When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ~ [[Frédéric Bastiat]]]] [[File:Epicurus-PergamonMuseum.png|right|thumb|If a man makes a law and it does not prove to be mutually advantageous, then this is no longer just. ~ [[Epicurus]]]] [[File:Huey Newton.jpg|thumb|Rewriting unjust laws is a basic human right and fundamental obligation. ~ [[Huey Newton]]]] [[File:Vatican StPaul Statue.jpg|thumb|Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ~ [[Paul of Tarsus]]]] [[File:Raffael 069.jpg|thumb|Everything, I think, that men constrain others to do without persuasion, whether by enactment or not, is not law, but force. ~ [[Xenophon]]]] [[File:Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne.jpg|thumb|An unjust law is no law at all. ~ [[Augustine of Hippo]] ]] [[File:A mosaic LAW by Frederick Dielman, 1847-1935.JPG|thumb|[[Necessity]] knows no law but makes law. ~ [[w:Gratian (jurist)|Gratian]] ]] [[File:Vrouwejustitia.jpg|thumb|Just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace. ~ [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] ]] [[File:Iustitia van Heemskerck.png|thumb|A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. ~ [[Ambrose Bierce]] ]] [[File:M-T-Cicero.jpg|thumb|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 wrong-doing by its prohibitions. ~ [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]] ]] [[File:Muttich, Kamil Vladislav - Posledni vyzvani mistru Husovi.jpg|thumb|The only law that a Christian should listen to and read is the law of God's Commandments. And it is not right to comply with, implement or observe any other law. ~ [[Jan Hus]]]] [[File:United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg|thumb|It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. ~ [[Calvin Coolidge]] ]] [[File:JUL Soul Iris.png|thumb|Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous [[Necessity]]— by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. ''These'' are [[miracles]]. ~ [[Leonardo da Vinci]] ]] [[File:Speyer (DerHexer) 2010-12-19 051.jpg|thumb|The law, in its [[majestic]] [[equality]], forbids the [[rich]] as well as the [[poor]] to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to [[steal]] bread. ~ [[Anatole France]] ]] [[File:American law digests.jpg|thumb|If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. ~ [[Felix Frankfurter]] ]] [[File:Clarence Earl Gideon.jpg|thumb|I believe that each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind. ~ [[w:Clarence Earl Gideon|Clarence Earl Gideon]] ]] [[File:A mosaic LAW by Frederick Dielman, 1847-1935.JPG|thumb|The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed--and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves. ~ [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] ]] [[File:THE HOPE OF ALL THE WORLD - NARA - 515613.jpg|thumb|The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] ]] [[File:1660 blk 19329 zoom.png|thumb|Observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] ]] [[File:1942 JFK uniform portrait.jpg|thumb|Only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] ]] [[File:Majesty of Law Rayburn.JPG|thumb|Law is the adhesive force in the cement of society, creating [[order]] out of chaos and coherence in place of anarchy. ~ [[John F. Kennedy]] ]] [[File:Golden statue.jpg|thumb|The [[end]] of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge [[freedom]]. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. ~ [[John Locke]] ]] [[File:Maimonides statue - Cordoba.jpg|thumb|Laws must have some bearing upon one of the following three things, viz., the regulation of our opinions, or the improvement of our social relations, which implies two things, the removal of injustice, and the teaching of good morals. ~ [[Maimonides]] ]] [[File:Maimonides Moses.jpg|thumb|In addition to the [[teaching]] of [[truths]] the Law aims at the removal of injustice from mankind. ~ [[Maimonides]] ]] [[File:Martin Luther King Jr NYWTS.jpg|thumb|There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ~ [[Martin Luther King]] ]] [[File:Ancient version of the Taijitu by Lai Zhi-De, sideways.svg|thumb|All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments. ~ [[Michio Kushi]] ]] [[File:Tinker Bell Levitation.jpg|thumb|The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity. ~ [[R. A. Lafferty]] ]] [[File:Law place du Palais-Bourbon Paris.jpg|thumb|Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. ~ [[Montesquieu]] ]] [[File:Authority of Law SCOTUS.JPG|thumb|Liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power; it depends on the law to constrain those in power. ~ [[Barack Obama]] ]] [[File:Paris - Assemblée Nationale - 001.jpg|thumb|Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state,<br>Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ]] [[File:Love heart.jpg|thumb|Curse on all laws but those which [[love]] has made. ~ [[Alexander Pope]] ]] [[File:Portrait of Pierre Joseph Proudhon 1865.jpg|thumb|I protest against every order with which some [[authority]] may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. ~ [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] ]] [[File:Taijitu polarity.PNG|thumb|As [[Bob Dylan]] forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky." ~ [[Spider Robinson]] ]] [[File:Eleanor Roosevelt UDHR.jpg|thumb|Laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law. ~ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] ]] [[File:President Theodore Roosevelt, 1904.jpg|thumb|right|The first essential of civilization is law. Anarchy is simply the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. ~ [[Theodore Roosevelt]] ]] [[File:JUL Iris Soul Palm.png|thumb|Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law. ~ [[Seneca the Elder]] ]] [[File:'Foundling Mick' by Léon Benett 31.jpg|thumb|'Twill be recorded for a precedent;<br>And many an error by the same example<br>Will rush into the state. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]] [[File:Liberty Enlightening the World, Paris 19 October 2011.jpg|thumb|[[Laws]] are never as effective as [[habits]]. ~ [[Adlai Stevenson II]] ]] [[File:Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) 9.jpg|thumb|That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. ~ [[Algernon Sydney]] ]] [[File:Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934).jpg|thumb|They constantly try to escape//From the darkness outside and within//By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. ~ [[T. S. Eliot]]]]
- Rupert Loup 03:10, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Sources for law quotes edit
I found this on wikiversity: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Universal_Bibliography/Law#Quotations
enjoy, Ottawahitech (talk) 15:33, 11 October 2020 (UTC)