Humanity Quote by Edgar Quinet

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

“Humanity as such, we might say, is a large collective drifting into the future with survival as its shared interest. This law differs from…

— Koji Suzuki

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

— Russell Kirk

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

— William Blackstone

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

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

— Robert Bork

“Law in its ideal form might be described as a ‘once-and-for-all’ command that is directed to unknown people and that is abstracted from all…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon…

— E. Stanley Jones

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken…

— Sigmund Freud

“The law is that all life is equal in the Great Creation, and we, the Human Beings, are charged with the responsibility, each in…

— Anonymous

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

— Earl Warren

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

— Chaim Weizmann