Law Quotes

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate, only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel.

Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just as the Buddha is the King of the Law; so is the Lotus Sutra, it is the King of all Sutras!

Dharma is law in its widest sense-spiritual, moral, ethical and temporal. Every individual, whether the ruler or the ruled, is governed by his or her own dharma. To the extent that society respected dharma, society protected itself; to the extent society offended it, society undermined.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Although bad Laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

The leading rule for the Lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.