Law quotes

“- Kate Sullivan: Someday, we'll smarten up, change some laws, and put you out of business.
- Lawrence Garfield: You can change all the laws you want. You can't stop the game. I'll still be here. I adapt.”
Penelope Ann Miller - Kate Sullivan
Danny DeVito - Lawrence Garfield

“If your laws don't include me, well, then they don't apply to me either.”
Mary Stuart Masterson - Anita Crown

“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.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“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.”
Daniel Craig - XXXX

“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.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“- 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)
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder
Gore Vidal - Prof. Pitkannan

“Those who will not live by the law shall die by the law!”
Charlton Hesto - Moses

“There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.”
Sir Sean Connery - King Arthur

“This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it?”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“Witch law is the complete opposite. Guilty until proven innocent.”
Chance Perdomo - Ambrose Spellman

“The law has little to say on things left undone.”
Henry Jones - Coroner

“I'm no lawyer. All's a lawyer cares about is the law.”

“Who is the boss? The cop or the law?”
Charlton Heston - Mike Vargas

“- 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.”
William M. Holden - Shears
Alec Guinness - Colonel Nicholson

“- 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!”
Leslie William Nielsen - Commander Adams
Walter Pidgeon - Dr. Morbius

“- Helen Parr: Superheroes are illegal, whether it's fair or not, that's the law.
- Bob Parr: The law should be fair. What are we teaching our kids.
- Helen Parr: To respect the law.
- Bob Parr: Even if the law is disrespectful?”
Holly Hunter - Helen Parr
Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr

“- Helen Parr: You know it's crazy, right? To help my family, I gotta leave it to fix the law, I gotta break it.
- Bob Parr: You've got to, so our kids can have that choice.”
Holly Hunter - Helen Parr
Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr

“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.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe

“- 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)
Frances McDormand - Mildred
Woody Harrelson - Willoughby

“- Michael O'Hara: Why don't you do it yourself?
- George Grisby: Commit suicide? Me? Don't be silly. Suicide is against the law. We're not going to break the law. This is going to be murder and it's going to be legal.”

Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara
Glenn Anders - George Grisby

“- Abraham Farlan: Be careful, doctor Reeves. In the whole Universe, nothing is stronger than The Law.
- Doctor Frank Reeves: Yes, Mr. Farlan, nothing is stronger than The Law in the Universe, but on Earth nothing is stronger than Love.”
Raymond Massey - Abraham Farlan
Roger Livesey - Dr. Frank Reeves

“- 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)
Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Gita Miller - Student Protestor #1
Sean Curley - Student Protestor #2

“The country isn't ready. Change minds first. Then change the law.”
Kathy Bates - Dorothy Kenyon

“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!”
Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg