There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
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