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  • Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society. -- Mo Ibrahim
  • Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations. -- J. William Fulbright
  • No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. -- James F. Cooper
  • Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. -- Robert Owen
  • In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable. -- Kirk Cameron
  • In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' -- Noam Chomsky
  • For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. -- Robert Bork
  • We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. -- Ernestine Rose
  • What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
  • The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth. -- Paul Johnson
  • Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. -- Huston Smith
  • Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
  • The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society. -- Joseph P. Bradley
  • If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important. -- Alan Mollohan
  • Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer. -- Jim Yong Kim
  • I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality. -- Elizabeth Strout
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  • My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society. -- Jude Law
  • The final cause of law is the welfare of society. -- Benjamin Cardozo
  • Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. -- Ayn Rand
  • When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. -- Orson Welles
  • Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation -- Julian Burnside
  • Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified. -- David L. Bazelon
  • If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that? -- Ai Weiwei
  • Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. -- Solon
  • You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. -- Theodor Herzl
  • Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state. -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law. -- Barbara Tuchman
  • It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society. -- Rousas John Rushdoony
  • It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. -- Thomas Hardy
  • Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. -- Howard Mumford Jones
  • ...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it. -- Massad Ayoob
  • No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather? -- Suzanne La Follette
  • Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed. -- Ray Comfort
  • Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career. -- Robert Bork
  • Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society. -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. -- George Soros
  • The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. -- Margaret Mead
  • Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. -- Judith Sargent Murray
  • MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and society better. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
  • A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. -- Walter Lippmann
  • 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
  • [Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society. -- William Blackstone
  • For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. -- David Cameron
  • Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. -- Robert Kennedy
  • It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. -- Frederic Bastiat
  • While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality. -- Wong Kiew Kit
  • They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. -- James Madison
  • The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
  • That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior. -- Vint Cerf
  • The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. -- Salman Rushdie
  • The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society. -- Albert Einstein
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