Unjust laws Quotes

A unjust law, is no law at all.

— Martin Luther

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

— Aaron Swartz

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

— Henry David Thoreau

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

— Saint Augustine

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

— Robert A. Heinlein

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

— Saint Augustine

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“If their rules made sense and sense ruled— If their laws weren’t so brok- en I wouldn’t break ‘em.”

— Roy Duffield

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

— Noah Webster

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

— Mahatma Gandhi

“When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level…

— Ron Paul

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him…

— Lysander Spooner

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold…

— Isaiah

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is…

— Martin Luther

They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust…

— John Ralston Saul

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that…

— Aristotle

Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces,…

— Jules Verne

Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust…

— H. G. Wells

If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural…

— Harlan F. Stone

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe - well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this…

— H.G. Wells

“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we…

— Henry David Thoreau

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil…

— Aaron Swartz

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to…

— Robert P. George

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

— Ayn Rand