Quotation of Law (法律名言录)16

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)

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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)

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The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964)

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914)

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Possession is eleven points in the law.

Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Woman‘s Wit, Act 1

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