Human Law Quotes

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: “Increase and multiply.

Human law is imposed on the multitude, a part of which is composed of men imperfect in virtue. Thus all the vices from which the virtuous abstain are not punished by human law, but only the more grievous ones which most people can avoid, and especially those which can hurt others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be preserved. Thus homicide, theft and the like are prohibited by human law.

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

Between law and equity there is, perhaps there must always be, a considerable interval. Between law and absolute morality there is at times patent contradiction. The undue protection of class interests, the neglect of interests of large classes; the legislation which consults, chiefly and above all else, the profit of the legislator, whether he be king, or noble, or popular assembly; the legislation which postpones moral to material interests, and which makes havoc of man's highest good in order to gratify his lower instincts, his passing caprice, his unreasoning passion -- all this and much else appears to forbid enthusiasm for human law.

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

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

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.

Marriage is the union of man and woman, communion of life, participation together in the divine and human law.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

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

If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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.

I would like to obey and place myself in subjection to every law of man. What then? Am I to disobey the law of God? Has any man a right to control my conscience, or your conscience? ...No man has a right to do it.

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

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. 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. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.