Contempt Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

— Emmerson Mnangagwa

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

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law…

— Al Smith

The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

— Ovid

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

— David L. Bazelon

All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes!…

— Peter Kropotkin

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and…

— Edmund Burke

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first great law is to obey.

— Friedrich Schiller