--- title: "11 Civil Law Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Civil Law quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Civil Law sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d56/roger-williams-11064_break_a-false-worship-will-not-hurt-the-civil_590321.png" --- > [A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-williams/a-false-worship-will-not-hurt-the-civil-state-if-the-worshipper/) [Roger Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d56/roger-williams-11064_break_a-false-worship-will-not-hurt-the-civil_590321.png) > [All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/all-men-among-themselves-are-by-nature-equal-the-inequality-we-now/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/thomas-hobbes-1127_equal_all-men-among-themselves-are-by-nature-e_2609096.jpg) > [It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-one-of-the-maxims-of-the-civil-law-that-definitions-are/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/866/samuel-johnson-50_definitions_it-is-one-of-the-maxims-of-the-civil-law_463372.png) > [Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lori-lipman-brown/regardless-of-whether-or-not-you-belong-to-a-majority-religion-in-the/) [Lori Lipman Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lori-lipman-brown/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/lori-lipman-brown-257620_atheism_regardless-of-whether-or-not-you-belong_560122.png) > [Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-p-bradley/civil-law-as-well-as-nature-herself-has-always-recognized-a-wide/) [Joseph P. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-p-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/389/joseph-p-bradley-34423_always_civil-law-as-well-as-nature-herself-has_2501673.jpg) > [“For there is no true equivalence between languages, and English law differs from civil law in both its genesis and its practice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jovan-autonoma-evi/for-there-is-no-true-equivalence-between-languages-and-english-law/) [Jovan Autonomašević](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jovan-autonoma-evi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/jovan-autonoma-evi-54828_english-law_for-there-is-no-true-equivalence-between_102796.jpg) > [We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/enda-kenny/we-have-so-much-discrimination-in-this-world-colour-race-creed-all-of/) [Enda Kenny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/enda-kenny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/enda-kenny-11375_discrimination_we-have-so-much-discrimination-in-this-w_688604.jpg) > [Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/just-what-is-the-civil-law-what-neither-influence-can-affect-nor/) [Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c2/marcus-tullius-cicero-157_break_just-what-is-the-civil-law-what-neither_417048.jpg) > [“If a human creature is composed of two beings, and if the acknowledgment of the necessity of preserving their union is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/montesquieu/if-a-human-creature-is-composed-of-two-beings-and-if-the/) [Montesquieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/montesquieu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/montesquieu-19593_necessity_if-a-human-creature-is-composed-of-two-b_2298684.jpg) > [“While the Christian and civic traditions were intrinsically suspicious of commerce, the Roman civil law was not. Rediscovered in the revival of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-z-muller/while-the-christian-and-civic-traditions-were-intrinsically/) [Jerry Z. Muller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-z-muller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/719/jerry-z-muller-32795_business_while-the-christian-and-civic-traditions_1164978.jpg) > [“Almost all modern legal practice is derived from one of two distinct traditions. The first, the so-called civil law tradition, is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-rosen/almost-all-modern-legal-practice-is-derived-from-one-of-two-distinct/) [William Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-rosen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/878/william-rosen-42020_common-law_almost-all-modern-legal-practice-is-deri_1429537.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civil-law/#itemlist", "name": "Civil Law Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roger Williams" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-williams/a-false-worship-will-not-hurt-the-civil-state-if-the-worshipper/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d56/roger-williams-11064_break_a-false-worship-will-not-hurt-the-civil_590321.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d56/roger-williams-11064_break_a-false-worship-will-not-hurt-the-civil_590321.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d56/roger-williams-11064_break_a-false-worship-will-not-hurt-the-civil_590321.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.” — Roger Williams", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. 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