Law Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thoughts in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker… Judging requires a certain impartiality.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.