Law Quotes - Page 33

• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Love Life, Light Life

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.360, Weiser Books

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• From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Israel, Baptism

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Excuse

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.209

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• The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Body, Too Much, Compass

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.672, Thomas Hobbes

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• For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Judgement, Cases, Sentences

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.212, Broadview Press

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• If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Justice, Would Be

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Book, Common

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 26, 1651.

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• This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Should

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.129, Broadview Press

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• But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 25, 1651.

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• The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Hands, Order

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.137, VM eBooks

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• Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.

  Johann Most

  Mean, Men, Past

  Johann Joseph Most (1890). “The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism”

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• Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.

  William Blackstone

  Mean, Men, Important

  Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”

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• In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Angel, Men

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 13, archive.org. 1971.

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• The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

  Democritus

  Men, Envy, Individual

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.

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• Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

  Louis Nizer

  Morning, Book, Golf

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• It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

  Edward Coke

  Reality, Corporations, Purpose

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• Law is the safest helmet.

  Edward Coke

  Helmet

  Sir Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (2003). “The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

  Edward Coke

  Prayer, Sleep, Six

  Translation of a quotation taken by Coke from Justinian 'The Pandects' (or 'Digest') bk. 2, ch. 4 'De in Jus Vocando'.

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• The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.

  Edward Coke

  Mean, Men, Sanctuary

  "The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England". Book by Edward Coke, 1642.

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• You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.

  Clint Eastwood

  Gun, Names, People

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• Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

  Charles Bukowski

  Vaudeville, Firsts, Court

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.46, City Lights Books

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• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 58, 1948.

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• An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

  Aristophanes

  Athens, Idiot, Ancient

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• The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.

  Peter Medawar

  Thinking, Information, Scientific Method

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Order, Discipline, People

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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