Human Law Quotes

• 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.
  • Terms
  • Human Law
  • Natural Law

• There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

  

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Hand
  • Mouse
  • Law Of God

• Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Women
  • Families
  • Maternity

• 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?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Believe
  • Human Law

• The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Desire
  • Creation
  • Human Race

• 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 Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Moral
  • Harmony
  • Law Of God