Defeat Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

— Wendell Phillips

It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a…

— Mark Steyn

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify,…

— Jimmy Carter

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

— Russell Kirk

The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property,…

— Peter Kropotkin

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

— Massad Ayoob

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

— Mary Baker Eddy

“[W]hen "the rule of law" becomes absolutized and everything is done by the book or the computer, people call out in desperation for the…

— Alan W. Watts

“The definition of lawlessness is Man’s rebellion against his fundamental purpose at creation for relationship and responsibility (i.e., his relationship to God, his Father,…

— L. Emerson Ferrell

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel