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The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Happiness

People

Law

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Maimonides

Law

Restraint

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer

Life

Law

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.