Agnostic Quote by Philipp Melanchthon

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

— Norm MacDonald

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

'Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people find a way around the LAWS!' PLATO 423 BC

— Andrew Guzaldo

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for…

— Leonora Carrington

In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.”

— Neal Shusterman

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without…

— Olaf Stapledon

“The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed…

— Immanuel Kant

“THREE LEVELS OF LAW America's Declaration of Independence names three kinds of law: the laws of man, of nature and nature’s God. The Book…

— Patricia E. West

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

— Francis Bacon

“The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does not seem…

— Thomas Jefferson