Quotes about Laws of Man

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. Votes: 2

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Votes: 2

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. Votes: 2

God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. Votes: 2

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. Votes: 2

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. Votes: 2

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God. Votes: 2

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. Votes: 2

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience. Votes: 2

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. Votes: 2

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. Votes: 2

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Votes: 2

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man. Votes: 2

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. Votes: 2

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. Votes: 2

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Votes: 2

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. Votes: 2

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is. Votes: 2

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. Votes: 2

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution. Votes: 2

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law. Votes: 0

Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. Votes: 0

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral Votes: 0

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. Votes: 0

Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself. Votes: 0

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. Votes: 0

Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free Votes: 0

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible. Votes: 0

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master. Votes: 0

There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing. Votes: 0

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. Votes: 0

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man. Votes: 0

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws. Votes: 0

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. Votes: 0

An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey. Votes: 0

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. Votes: 0

The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself. Votes: 0

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken. Votes: 0

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law. Votes: 0

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. Votes: 0

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow. Votes: 0

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. Votes: 0

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. Votes: 0

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. Votes: 0

...it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws... Votes: 0

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. Votes: 0

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. Votes: 0

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest. Votes: 0

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine. Votes: 0

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them. Votes: 0

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law. Votes: 0

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. Votes: 0

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. Votes: 0

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life. Votes: 0

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature. Votes: 0

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. Votes: 0

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. Votes: 0

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. Votes: 0

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man. Votes: 0

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him. Votes: 0

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. Votes: 0

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory. Votes: 0

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws. Votes: 0

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. Votes: 0

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Votes: 0

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. Votes: 0

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. Votes: 0

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. Votes: 0

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code. Votes: 0

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty. Votes: 0

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity. Votes: 0

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife. Votes: 0

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century. Votes: 0

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. Votes: 0

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him. Votes: 0

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. Votes: 0

If you're smart or rich or luckyMaybe you'll beat the laws of manBut the inner laws of spiritAnd the outer laws of natureNo man can Votes: 0

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own. Votes: 0

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves. Votes: 0

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible Votes: 0

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Votes: 0

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. Votes: 0

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God. Votes: 0

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land. Votes: 0

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil. Votes: 0

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death. Votes: 0

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates. Votes: 0

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. Votes: 0

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. Votes: 0

The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true. Votes: 0

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art. Votes: 0

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. Votes: 0

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. Votes: 0

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free. Votes: 0

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Votes: 0

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions? Votes: 0

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself. Votes: 0

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence. Votes: 0

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Votes: 0

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me. Votes: 0

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws. Votes: 0

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man? Votes: 0

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. Votes: 0