Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

So many laws argues so many sins.

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.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice

Law is that which commands what is right and prohibits what is wrong.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Law alone cannot make men see right.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.