Law quotes
258 law quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Other People's Money
- From the movie: Bad Girls
“If your laws don't include me, well, then they don't apply to me either.”
- From the movie: The Majestic
“Aside from the fact that this is a free country, and you can be a communist if you want to be a communist, leaving that aside, if you're accused falsely you have a duty as well as a right to stand up and suggest they drop dead.”
- From the movie: The Emperor's Club
“It is not living that is important, but living properly. Socrates chose to die an unjust death, a death he freely accepted, rather than break the laws of Athens to which he pledged his loyalty.”
- From the movie: Layer Cake
“It is only very very stupid people who think the law is stupid. And avoid like the plague, loud attention seeking wannabe gangsters who are in it for the glory, to be a face, to be a name. They don't mean to fuck up. They just do.”
- From the movie: The Talk of the Town
“If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it.”
- From the movie: With Honors
“- Simon Wilder: The beauty of the Constitution is that it can always be changed. The beauty of the Constitution is that it makes no set law other than faith in the wisdom of ordinary people to govern themselves.
- Prof. Pitkannan: Faith in the wisdom of the people is exactly what makes the Constitution incomplete and crude.
- Simon Wilder:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Ten Commandments
“Those who will not live by the law shall die by the law!”
- From the movie: First Knight
“There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.”
- From the movie: The Talk of the Town
- From the movie: The Talk of the Town
“The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit.”
- From the TV Series: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- From the movie: Vertigo
“The law has little to say on things left undone.”
- From the movie: Touch of Evil
- From the movie: Touch of Evil
“Who is the boss? The cop or the law?”
- From the movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai
“- Commander Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs?
- Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.
- Commander Shears: That's just my point; here, there is no civilization.
- Colonel Nicholson: Then we have the opportunity to introduce it.” - From the movie: Forbidden Planet
“- Commander Adams: Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.
- Dr. Morbius: I'm not a monster, you...
- Commander Adams: We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!” - From the movie: High Noon
“People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care.”
- From the movie: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
“- Mildred Hayes: You could pull blood from every man and boy in this town over the age of 8.
- Willoughby: There's civil rights laws prevents that, Mrs. Hayes, and what if he was just passing through town?
- Mildred Hayes: Pull blood from every man in the country.
- Willoughby: And what if he was just passing through the country?
- Mildred Hayes...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Lady from Shanghai
- From the movie: A Matter of Life and Death
- From the movie: On the Basis of Sex
“- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: There are laws that say women can’t work overtime. And that a woman’s social security benefits, unlike her husband’s, don’t provide for her family after death.
- Student Protestor #1: What?
- Student Protestor #2: Excuse me?
- Student Protestor #1: That’s bullshit!
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Ten years ago, Dorothy Kenyon...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: On the Basis of Sex
- From the movie: On the Basis of Sex
“These are laws written by men who think we are privileged to be excused from men’s obligations. But it is not a privilege, it is a cage, and these laws are the bars!”
- From the movie: The Public
“It is my job to uphold the law and to protect democracy in this city.”
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