Natural Law Quotes

• Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Law, Secret Love

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• The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

  William of Auxerre

  Law, Principles, Firsts

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• Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

  Ambrose

  Heart, Men, Law

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• The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Law, Obligation

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.43

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• Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Law, Choices, Natural

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• Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.496

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• 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.

  Law, Unjust, Natural

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, War, Independent

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Reality, Law

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

  Aristotle

  Law, Way, Earning

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• Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Law, Community, Care

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)”, p.995, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Powerful, Thoughtful

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• People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mistake, Talking, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.363, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

  Friedrich Dessauer

  God, Science, Discovery

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• 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

  Men, Squares, Law

  Letter from a Birmingham Jail, www.africa.upenn.edu. April 16, 1963.

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• No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Past, Men, Law

  Wilhelm Reich (1960). “Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy”

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• The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

  Albert Einstein

  Reflection, Thinking, Law

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

  William Blackstone

  God, Country, Law

  Sir William Blackstone (1973). “The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.29, Springer

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• Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Christianity, Rebellion

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

  Conrad Hilton

  Inspiring, Law, Suffering

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• To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Believe, Law, Evil

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• [P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Confusion

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• Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Nature, Science, Law

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

  Karl Popper

  Law, Belief, Natural

  'Conjectures and Refutations' (1963)

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• It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Peace, Powerful

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