Top 1200 Law Of Averages Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

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

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

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

When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

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

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

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

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

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

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

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

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

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

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

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

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

I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.

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

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.

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.

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

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something of me for their fulfillment, then deliverance from law means he no longer requires that from me, but himself provides it.

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.

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

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.

Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.

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.

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

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

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

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!!!

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

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.

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.