Zitat des Tages über Kein Gesetz / No Law:
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
There is no law governing all things.
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.
This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.
Necessity has no law.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.