Existential Quote by Ilana Mercer

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

— William of Auxerre

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do,…

— Thomas Hobbes

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

— Friedrich Dessauer

The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be…

— Lysander Spooner

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law…

— William Blackstone

The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up…

— Murray Rothbard

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered…

— Wilhelm Reich

Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply…

— Vilfredo Pareto

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

— Rufus King

There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable…

— Joseph LeConte