- Nov 07, 2020
Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.'
- Prime Minister
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein's ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020