Top 1200 Harvard Law School Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

I have a terrible memory of my own past. I can barely remember my childhood. I have few memories from college and law school - though once I got married, I got the advantage of being able to consult my husband's memory.

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.

The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in the boiler room of a high school at night. When I see high school guys now I'm actually like, 'Thank f - king God I'm not in high school anymore because they look like they could kick the living s - t out of me.'

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.

While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.

Most Americans need to be told discrimination against trans people is against the law. Instead of looking at us as people, they look at us as not people. If there's a law that states this treatment is not allowed, I'd feel safer to function more confidently in society because I'd know I'm protected by the law in the country I pay taxes in.

[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.

There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law... Not one jot or tittle of the laws of Nature are unfulfilled. I do not believe it is possible to state this fact too strongly... Everything happens according to law, and, since law is the expression of Divine will, everything happens according to Divine will, i.e. is in some sense ordained, decreed.

Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].

The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

I can't begin to describe how humiliating it is for a law-abiding citizen to be cross-examined in a court of law for a crime he hasn't committed.

American law needs to reflect gods law.

Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.

I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

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

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

I don't think anybody could understand what its like to be an athlete at Harvard University.

When I went to law school, I took a bankruptcy class with then-professor, now-Senator Elizabeth Warren. And I'll never forget that first day of class, hearing her talk about the importance of the bankruptcy system.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.