Pastoral Resources

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

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.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

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

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Law is a bottomless pit.