law Quotes

“To mix Law and Gospel not only clouds the knowledge of grace, it cuts out Christ altogether.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“There are times when custom can be the higher law.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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“It is precisely because the force of circumstances tends continually to destroy equality that the force of legislation should always tend to its maintenance.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition laws. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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“Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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