It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting.
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.
