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To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. -- Maimonides
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. -- Randall Terry
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. -- Sandra Fluke
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. -- Ferdinand Mount
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. -- Hannah Arendt
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did. -- Janis Karpinski
One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so. -- Bobby Scott
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. -- John Paul II
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. -- George Will
The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life. -- Cesare Beccaria
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt. -- David Malpass
Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share. -- Simon Sinek
The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way. -- Ovid
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. -- Robert Southey
I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation. -- Simon Sinek
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law -- Theodore Roosevelt
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed. -- Ayn Rand
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. -- Peter Kropotkin
Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands. -- Bayley
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. -- Robert Bork
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law. -- Charley Reese
Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now. -- Cass Sunstein
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter. -- Richard Whately
The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest. -- John Allen Fraser

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