Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

The priest accustoms the child to the idea of law, to make it obey better what he calls the "divine law," and the lawyer prates of divine law, that the civil law may be the better obeyed.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Right... is the child of law.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

Law is the ultimate science.

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

The study of law is, after all, largely the study of history.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.

I've never been in trouble with the law.