Civil Law Quotes
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Civil Law Quotes & Sayings
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Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
— Mary Frances Berry
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
— Thomas Hobbes
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
— John Quincy Adams
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.
— Debbie Stabenow
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.
— Noah Webster
History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.
— A.E. Samaan
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.
— Philipp Melanchthon
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
— Anthony Lewis
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
— William Blackstone
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.
— Lori Lipman Brown
Gandhi said that only people with a high regard for the law were qualified for civil disobedience.
— Mark Shepard
Right isn't always legal.
— J.S.B. Morse
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
— Constance Baker Motley
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
— Thomas Hobbes
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
— Howard Zinn
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— Howard Zinn
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.
— Frank Lautenberg
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
— William Shakespeare
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
— Alfred Marshall
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
— James A. Garfield
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
— Joseph P. Bradley
We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
— Walter Scott
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
— Ida B. Wells
When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic or theocentric?
— Christina Engela
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
— Claire McCaskill
Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
— Ray Comfort