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Letter "L" » Law and lawyers
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«In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Ethics,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
civilized, ethics, floats, Law of the Sea
«In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.»
Author: Idi Amin Dada
(President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Death and dying,
Law and lawyers,
Nations
| Keywords:
Law and Order, sacrifices
«Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
| About:
Ignorance,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, excuses, ignorance of the law, plead
«In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge»
Author: Robert Bork
| About:
Democracy,
Law and lawyers,
Morality
| Keywords:
be given, constitutional, framer, Framers, legislator
«In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Ethics,
Law and lawyers,
Right
| Keywords:
ethics, guilty, He Is Guilty, in-law, violates, violating
«In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us»
Author: Richard Whately
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
indistinctly, optic, optics, reversed, transaction, transactions
«In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
definition, establish, obedience, organized, secures, The Question
«In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
Law of the, majority, The Law
«In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law. That would lead to anarchy.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
advocate, anarchy, defying, evading
«In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Authority,
Law and lawyers,
Truth
| Keywords:
accepted, divine law, good authority, in truth, lawgiver, remarkable, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to
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