Common 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" Ch.2, 8”

— 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

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

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

— Luther Burbank

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

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

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

“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

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

— Bruce Lee

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the…

— Edward Gibbon