Richard Rohr Quotes

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

While a law is in force it should be lived up to. You have a right to try to change it, and if you can persuade the majority that it should be changed then it will be changed. But you must abide by a law until it is changed or you will be flouting the fundamental things that make us a democracy and a law-abiding nation.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.