Humans Quote by Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

— Gloria Steinem

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

— Ambrose Bierce

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

— Neal Shusterman

It is important to remember that whereas justice has grandeur not devolving from the simian skull of man, law is a human institution and…

— Propertius

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the…

— Algernon Sidney

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

— Erik Paulsen

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

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

— Dan Millman

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Massad Ayoob