Law Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

— David Novak

“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this…

— Austin Osman, Spare

it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Laws without morals are in vain.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere…

— Clarence Darrow

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

— Edward Snowden

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

— Wendell Phillips

Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

— Clarence Darrow

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice…

— Kurt Huber

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

— Laurence J. Peter