Top 1200 Harvard Law School Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.

I see basically two models of law firms in the world. One of the global law firm they go by the name of one-stop shops, which will open an office, everybody see and opportunity and will also practice the local law of that jurisdiction. That's a successful model as well but that's not the only model. And the other model is those of independent law firms, national champions which have some unique strengths as well and I think both have their strengths and weaknesses.

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.

All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

I never liked the trucking business. I did not intend to spend time in the trucking business. I was a professional, I wore a suit everyday. I was going into law school, or Wall Street or to get my MBA. That's where my head was at.

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, law school will always be there. I was in no hurry to get right into that.

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law, steer clear of wool/pearl/silk/ fish bone/ fur/ivory/coral/ down/beeswax/honey/ cashmere/ lanolin/ feathers/ camel hair/flesh/milk/ eggs/ fish/ seafood/ other!!!

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

In Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, those who disrespect the law will feel the weight of that very same law.

None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God has given us his law to aid us in guarding our souls, we see that the law is for our fulfillment, not for our limitation. The law reminds us that some things, some experiences, some relationships are sacred. When everything has been profaned, it is not just my freedom that has been lost- the loss is everyone's. God gave us the law to remind us of the sacredness of life, and our created legal systems only serve to remind us of the profane judgments we make.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.

A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.

The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul Haq. No one demanded the blasphemy law in Pakistan. But he wanted to give protection to his undemocratic rule, dictatorship, by using religion. So Pakistan came into being in 1947, and from 1947 until 1986 no case against any minorities was registered under the protection of the blasphemy law. Nobody from minorities was killed and no act of violence happened [against them].

The Supreme Court should interpret the law, not make the law.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!