Russian Orthodox Church Quotes

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.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

… law as it exists in the modern community may be conveniently, although perhaps not comprehensively, defined as the sum total of all those rules of conduct for which there is state sanction.

There is nothing certain in the principles of jurisprudence.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.

I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.

It is the merit of the common law that it decides the case first and determines the principles afterward.

Law is not a science, but is essentially empirical.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

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

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

Any attempt to develop the civil, criminal and public law based on the Gospel alone cannot be efficient, for without the full churching of life, that is without complete victory over sin, the law of the Church cannot become the law of the world

All men therefore among themselves are by nature equal; the inequality we now discern, hath its spring from the Civil Law.

There is not, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertion of a succession of wise men, through a long course of ages, withdrawing every case, as it arises, from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules.

It makes courts rely on federal and state law when deciding cases. It forbids courts from considering or using international law. It forbids courts from considering or using Sharia Law. It makes courts rely on federal and state law when deciding cases. It forbids courts from considering or using international law. It forbids courts from considering or using Sharia Law.

Any legal system developed by the human community, being as it is a fruit of historical development, carries a seal of limitation and imperfection.

The best [legal] codes extant, if malignantly criticized, will be found to furnish matter for censure in every page …

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.