Top 1200 Father-In-Law Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe; there's selective application of the rule of law. Patrick Chinamasa, who is the minister of justice, destroyed the independent judiciary.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

I was 11 when my father died, so I didn't know my father so well.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

I love my father. I disagreed with him. But he was my father. He was the boss.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

Trump will be America's law and order president, and I look forward to working with him as the law and order governor of Virginia.

A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

In law school, we studied the famous book 'Getting to Yes,' co-written by the head of the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn't go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, 'Law firms won't hire you.'

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published decision, it becomes virtually like a statute. Everybody is suppose to follow that law. Whether I decide to allow a law to become a law without my signature is simply in effect expressing a view that while I don't particularly care for this, the Legislature passed it, it was an overwhelming. vote, or maybe there were other reasons. But my decision not to sign doesn't have to be followed by everybody from that point on

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

The magic of the American experience is that we've upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.