Law quotes
274 law quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: The Hand of God
- From the TV Series: The Sopranos
“If you can quote the rules, then you can obey them.”
- From the TV Series: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
“The laws for the rich are different.”
- From the movie: Boyhood
- From the animation: Death Note
“Laws aren’t perfect, because humans who created laws aren’t perfect. It’s impossible to be perfect. However, the laws are evidence of the human’s struggle to be righteous.”
- From the movie: Guardians of the Galaxy
- 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: Incredibles 2
- From the movie: Incredibles 2
- 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: 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.”
- From the movie: The Great Silence
“- Sheriff Burnett: Tell me something, old-timer. Are we within the jurisdiction of Snow Hill County?
- Coachman: Yep. You can arrest or hang anyone you want.” - From the movie: The Great Silence
“- Sheriff Burnett: Set a wagon outside of town and put as much food on it as you can spare. If they eat, they'll behave. And you women, all of you, stay inside. Understand? Now let's get moving. C'mon.
- Henry Pollicut: Fill a wagon. So now, these bandits gotta be fought with bread and butter. When are we gonna see some law and common sense in...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Battle of Algiers
“- Journalist: The law's often inconvenient, Colonel.
- Col. Mathieu: And those who explode bombs in public places, do they respect the law perhaps? When you put that question to Ben M'Hidi, remember what he said?” - From the movie: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
“- Shere Khan: The man-cub is mine! I have already tasted its mother's blood! It is my right.
- Nisha: Your right according to whose law?”
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