13 quotes
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
— Aristotle
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law”
— Montesquieu
“The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“An unjust law is no law at all”
— Augustine of Hippo
“Laws are like spiders webs which stand firm when any light yielding object falls upon them while a weightier thing breaks through and escapes”
— Solon
“At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst”
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
— John F. Kennedy
“In civilized life law floats in a sea of ethics”
— Earl Warren
“The welfare of the people is the ultimate law”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay, right or justice.”
— Unknown
“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.”
— Justinian I
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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