Justice Quote by John Locke

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

— John Locke

“Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far…

— John Locke

“Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit crimes against…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“Man cannot change a single law of nature, but can put himself into such relations to natural laws that he can profit by them"...”

— Anonymous

“A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil…They had learned that while Nature is often…

— Lois Lenski

“The thing that you have to understand about nature and natural law is, there’s no mercy…. There’s only law. And if you don’t understand…

— Mary Christina Wood

“For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as…

— John Locke

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

“A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in possession of his reason…

— Immanuel Kant

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for…

— John Locke

“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ”

— Steve Aylett

“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like…

— Albert Camus