An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. - Mahatma Gandhi Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? - Henry David Thoreau One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. - Martin Luther King Jr One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. - Martin Luther King Jr One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless. - Sam Harris A unjust law, is no law at all. - ...

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it. - Paul Brunton The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. - William James People are just preprogrammed to want what they don't have. It's like it's a universal law. - Autumn Doughton Feel sorry for anyone who thinks what they think is right should be some universal law - Huntley Fitzpatrick May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. - Immanuel Kant Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. - Immanuel Kant Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal ...

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. - Ronald Reagan A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. - Samuel Alito Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. - Julian Assange The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. - Roger Nash Baldwin We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. - Matt Blunt Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy. - James Bovard The rule of law should be upheld by all po...

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country. - Diane Abbott It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. - Floyd Abrams 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. - Floyd Abrams Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. - Floyd Abrams I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or ...

I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country. - Herman Cain Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right. - Jennifer M Granholm

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. - Mahmoud Abbas Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. - Ronald Reagan A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. - Samuel Alito Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. - Julian Assange The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. - Roger Nash Baldwin We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. - Matt Blunt The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of...

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from. - Robert Benchley There's unique and particular moment in the natural law of universe, where all things except them are going to turn against their wickedness. - Toba Beta But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician. - Michael Scott Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds. - Dan Brown Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which re...

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. - Alan Brien It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. - Franz Kafka I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. - Gunter Grass

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow. - Tobe Hooper with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students - Gary Shteyngart The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. - Cass Sunstein

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal. - Banksy The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist. - Marion Berry There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. - Charles Darwin The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. - Carl Sagan Sir ...

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. - Ernest Holmes Study carefully the law of cause and effect. - Vernon Howard

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress. - Peter Stone Daytime television, you can tell who's watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it's clinics for drying out drunks. Or it's law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it's schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you're watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You're a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot. - Chuck Palahniuk I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. - Gerard Butler Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were jus...

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. - Richard Armitage Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them. - Spencer Bachus I'm not saying it isn't habit forming, but it's much milder than tobacco, alcohol, or cocaine. Law enforcement says it's addictive, but that's ridiculous. If you believe that, then pachinko is far more dangerous. - Haruki Murakami When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. - Mary Frances Berry No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's su...