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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of America.
As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there are no laws.
The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.
Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?
I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.
It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.
We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
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.
We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history.
Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.