Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now
The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse,...
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.
The world is a devastating place. You must learn to protect your emotions to prevent matters both in law and love, from devastating you.
This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
