Bases Quote by Chaim Weizmann

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone

“1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational…

— The Catholic Church

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought…

— William Ernest Hocking

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

— Massad Ayoob

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said…

— Anthony de Mello

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

— Paul Ricoeur

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

— John Quincy Adams

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero