Aspect Quote by Paul Ricoeur

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

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought…

— William Ernest Hocking

The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said…

— Anthony de Mello

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

— David L. Bazelon

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

— Robert Bork

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate,…

— William Blackstone

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength,…

— Anthony Trollope

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of…

— Livy

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone