Law Quotations
Law of international organizations
"Although individual decisions may seem small in the face of global threats and trends, when billions of people join forces in common purpose, we can make a tremendous difference."
-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
"Water is fundamental for life and health. The human right to water is indispensable for leading a healthy life in human dignity. It is a pre-requisite to the realization of all other human rights."
-The United Nations Committee on
Economic, Cultural and Social Rights
"But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers."
-Bible
1 Timothy 1. 8-9.
"We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it.
Their perch and not their terror."
-William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure.
"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."
-Herbert Spencer