Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Herman HesseI was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho MarxJustice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma GandhiIt is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Herman HesseIn matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law, than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonTwo things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel KantAs you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauIt is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Franz KafkaThe miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Jean PaulConstant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas, in order to appear consistent, drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma GandhiThere is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert EinsteinI have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
AristotleI know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. EdisonAt his best man is the noblest of all animals, separated from law and justice he is the worst.
AristotleAn unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma GandhiThere is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma GandhiThe strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin FranklinLove is the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
David Herbert LawrenceMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle, but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de MontaigneMoralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry MillerThere's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law, punish those who do not.
Rush LimbaughWhen artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
Herman HesseMan, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all.
AristotleMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. LewisOnly one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark TwainLaw is mind without reason.
AristotleLaws too gentle are seldom obeyed, too severe seldom executed.
Benjamin FranklinStates should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. BushPeople are getting smarter nowadays, they are letting lawyers instead of their conscience be their guide.
Will RogersLaws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark TwainLawless are they that make their wills their law.
William ShakespeareAn individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Justice, while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel ButlerNature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciLaws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George WashingtonLove is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth which is law.
Rabindranath TagoreThe law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma GandhiThe law is reason free from passion
AristotleBuddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan WattsI submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert EinsteinOne who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.In matters of truth and justice there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert EinsteinLove to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless winged and unconfined and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare