Law Quotes & Sayings

Law Quotes & Sayings

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Oath: In law, a solemn appeal to the deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce



The three fundamental Rules of Robotics, One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, Two: a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law, Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws. - Isaac Asimov



Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul. - George Bancroft



Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. - Aristotle



The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France



The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. - Sun Tzu



There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. - Hannah Arendt



Rite: A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce



Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. - Alexander Pope