One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.