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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!'
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.
- Purpose
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We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
- History
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When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
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- Nov 07, 2020