Human Laws Quotes

21 quotes by 17 authors

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke
Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing… — Georgie Henley
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins… — Edmund Burke
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. — James Anthony Froude
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone
As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal… — Alexander H. Stephens
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not… — Eileen Caddy
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws. — George Gillespie
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.… — Mark Twain
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of… — William Blackstone
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain… — George Saunders
A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals… — William H. Seward
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to… — Joseph Sobran
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. — Jules Verne
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families. — Martin Luther
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the… — H P Lovecraft
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of… — Thomas Paine
There are certain laws which are involved in our actions and interactions. They are not human laws requiring lawyers to interpret or the police to… — Dr BK Satyanarayan

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