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American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may. -- Frederick Douglass
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good. -- Saint Augustine
Law is born from despair of human nature. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. -- Howard Lindsay
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects. -- Billy Sunday
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. -- Jules Verne
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. -- Dora Russell
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. -- Tony Abbott
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. -- Arthur C. Clarke
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. -- Joichi Ito
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. -- Edmund Burke
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. -- Charles Studd
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws. -- George Gillespie
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. -- James Joseph Sylvester
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property. -- Salmon P. Chase
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. -- Judith Butler
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. -- Charles de Secondat
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. -- George Combe
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence. -- Shereen El Feki
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. -- Jude Law
Nine-tenths of human law is about possession. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Habit is the deepest law of human nature -- Thomas Carlyle
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. -- John Milton
Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. -- Marcus Garvey
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it. -- Honore de Balzac
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning -- Tony Abbott
Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine. -- George Bernard Shaw
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. -- Dorothy Height
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. -- Desmond Tutu
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. -- Joichi Ito
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn. -- George William Russell
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. -- William Blackstone
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers. -- Christina Stead
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. -- Shane Claiborne
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. -- Samuel Johnson
I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights. -- Jill Stein
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. -- Pamela Yates
The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law. -- Cecil B. DeMille
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue. -- Frances Power Cobbe
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. -- Oscar Wilde
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. -- Peter Kropotkin
Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. -- Russell Kirk
We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character. -- Allen W. Wood
Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. -- Russell Kirk
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. -- Julius Streicher
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. -- Teresa of Avila
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. -- James A. Garfield
This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control. -- Rufus King
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. -- Walter Raleigh
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! -- John Quincy Adams
Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable. -- Mairead Corrigan
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. -- Margaret Mead
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person. -- Pope John Paul II
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. -- Rabindranath Tagore
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. -- Richard Whately
China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. -- Hu Jintao
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. -- Ron Wyden
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
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. -- Richard Whately
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. -- Anna Lindh
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. -- David E. Kelley
Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart. -- Danny Silk
You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne -- Neal Shusterman
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law -- Taslima Nasrin
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. -- Taslima Nasrin
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. -- Charles Sumner
Stripe for stripe is human law; by His stripes we are healed is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine. -- Horatius Bonar
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics] -- Isaac Asimov
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. -- Adolf Hitler
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. -- Stephen Hawking
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences. -- Ian Tattersall
Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law. -- Cass Sunstein
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. -- Sallust
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul. -- Frank Tipler
Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human. -- Hugo Grotius
There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to. -- Scott Hastie
The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and various other means to protect it. -- U.G. Krishnamurti
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. -- E. O. Wilson
The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution. -- Ai Weiwei
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. -- Edward Gibbon
The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life. -- Mary Burnett Talbert
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world. -- Stephen Batchelor
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law. -- John Buchan
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself. -- Charles Grandison Finney
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At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. -- William Hague
When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters. -- Cal Thomas
The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. -- Albert Einstein
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. -- Joichi Ito
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. -- Dorothy Thompson
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God's authority from the beginning: â??Increase and multiply. -- Pope Leo XIII

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