#law

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#bill clinton #brother-in-law #clinton #coming #elected

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#appoints #change #children #court #judges

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. ↗

— William Cobbett

#cause #common #common cause #consider #enough

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#age #decided #i #lawyer #wanted

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#day #domesticated #foresee #granted #i

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#changing #despite #emphasis #even #evil

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#checked #famous #got #i #just

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. ↗

— George Combe

#cases #character #conducting #divine #gentlemen

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#else #everything #first #first law #law

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ↗

— Confucius

#diamond #flaw #pebble #than #without