Law Evolution Quotes

The law is always in transition.

The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.

It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.

If facts are changing, law cannot be static.

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide

The laws are gonna have to change. And it's 2016. We can't keep using all the laws that was made back in the 1700s. We're gonna have to understand that times have changed.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.