| An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mahatma Gandhi Law |
| More from Mahatma Gandhi |
| The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. Mahatma Gandhi |
| "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." Mahatma Gandhi |
| Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi |
| The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi |
| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi |
| To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. Mahatma Gandhi |
| "I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech." Mahatma Gandhi |
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| "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." Mahatma Gandhi |
| More in the Law category |
| Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frédéric Bastiat Law |
| The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation. Helen P. Blavatsky Law |
| This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position. Helen P. Blavatsky Law |
| Not under man but under God and law. Henry de Bracton Law |
| ["non sub homine sed sub deo et lege", The quotation frames the entry to the Harvard Law Library.] Henry de Bracton Law |
| "It is an honorable calling that you have chosen. Some of you will soon be defending poor, helpless insurance companies who are constantly being sued by greedy, vicious widows and orphans trying to collect on their policies. Others will work tirelessly to protect frightened, beleaguered oil companies from being attacked by depraved consumer groups." Art Buchwald Law |
| Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils but its general language should not, therefore, be necessarily confined to the form that evil had theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle, to be vital, must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth. This is peculiarly true of constitutions. They are not ephemeral enactments, designed to meet passing occasions. They are, to use the words of Chief Justice Marshall, 'designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.' The future is their care, and provision for events of good and bad tendencies of which no prophecy can be made. In the application of a constitution, therefore, our contemplation cannot be only of what has been, but of what may be. Under any other rule a constitution would indeed be as easy of application as it would be deficient in efficacy and power. Its general principles would have little value, and be converted by precedent into impotent and lifeless formulas. Rights declared in words might be lost in reality. And this has been recognized. The meaning and vitality of the Constitution have developed against narrow and restrictive construction. Joseph McKenna Law |
| "Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.” Michel de Montaigne Law |
| "Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.” Michel de Montaigne Law |
| No one has felt the full glory of a barrister's life who has not, in wig and gown, been called to the podium in The Committee room of the House of Lords by an official in full evening dress and, on a wet Monday morning, lectured five elderly Law Lords on the virtues of masturbation. Sir John Mortimer Law |
