Quotation of Law (法律名言录)17

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Gorky IncidentWhat are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don‘t know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it‘s always struck me as a hopeful thing.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)"Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune (First Law of Mentat)It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)