Law

Famous quotes containing the word law:

    The law cannot be enforced when everyone is an offender.
    Chinese proverb.

    If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one’s duty toward one’s own subjects; for thus one exposes them to the law of retribution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)