Law Quotes - Page 25

• I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Strong, Kings

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• Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

  John Galsworthy

  Public Opinion, Opinion

  John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

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• Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

  Frank Herbert

  Justice, Mistress, Prejudice

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.39, Penguin

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• Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Enforcement, Littles

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.137, Penguin

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• Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

  Frank Herbert

  Giving, Mind, Gathering

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.218, Penguin

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• Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

  John Buchan

  Divine Justice, Together, Needs

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.803, e-artnow

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• The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.

  Federico Fellini

  Children, Eye, Race

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.

  Errico Malatesta

  Military, Taken, Mean

  "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.

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• If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Giving, Community

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• I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Spring, Fighting, Evil

  James Weldon Johnson, “Brothers”

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• Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

  Austin O'Malley

  Ships, Rudders, States

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• Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.

  Austin O'Malley

  Made, Young, Exception

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• Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Knowing, Despair, World

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Wings, Tasks, Done

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.19

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• No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

  Livy

  Convenient

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 3,

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• 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.

  Livy

  Majority, Convenience, Satisfied

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 3,

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• The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Honor, Important

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Turn in the South”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Errors, Long

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operate according to fixed natural laws. Every so often, though, problems impinge on us so directly that we stretch beyond that mildly deistic stance and ask God to intervene. When a drought drags on too long, we pray for rain. When a young mother gets a diagnosis of cervical cancer, we solicit prayers for her healing. We beseech God as if trying to talk God into something God otherwise might not want to do.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Mother, Prayer

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• He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.

  George Henry Lewes

  Dark, Ignorant, Body

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.126, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Mean, Justice

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 5 (p. 133), December 17, 1978.

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• King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.

  John Arbuthnot

  Kings, Arbitrary, World

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”, p.9

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• I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  "Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.

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• God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical element in us, - do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.

  James Martineau

  Nature, Agency, Energy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 431), 1895.

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• I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

  Gregory Peck

  Believe, Political Opinions, Odds

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 167, 2003.

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