All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
The law always limits every power it gives.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.