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Quotes About Law

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
~ John Ruskin
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.
~ John Locke
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
~ Malcolm X
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
~ Marcel Proust
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.
~ Sue Grafton
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.
~ John Donne
Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
~ Ernst Haeckel
A lot of things in nature answers to increase which is a law of nature
~ Sunday Adelaja
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
~ Thomas Hobbes
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
~ Anatole France
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.
~ Benjamin B. Ferencz
Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.
~ Hillel the Elder
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
~ Ludwig Quidde
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.
~ U Thant
Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Everything you do in war is a crime in peace
~ Helen McCloy
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
~ Bela Lugosi