Law Quote by Robert H. Jackson

“You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say, not only…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“Crime exists because immorality is wicked and morality is weak.”

— Amit Kalantri

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”

— Randy Wayne White

“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.”

— Michel Templet

“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.”

— Håkan Nesser

“Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the laws are…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make…

— Bastiat, Frederick

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr