
Quoted in [Richard C. Reuben, Man in the Middle, California Lawyer, October 1992, 35]
Source: The Law (1850)
Quoted in [Richard C. Reuben, Man in the Middle, California Lawyer, October 1992, 35]
Ten Sermons of Religion (1853), III : Of Justice and the Conscience https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ten_Sermons_of_Religion/Of_Justice_and_the_Conscience
Context: Justice is the constitution or fundamental law of the moral universe, the law of right, a rule of conduct for man in all his moral relations. Accordingly all human affairs must be subject to that as the law paramount; what is right agrees therewith and stands, what is wrong conflicts and falls. Private cohesions of self-love, of friendship, or of patriotism, must all be subordinate to this universal gravitation towards the eternal right.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374.
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Context: One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."
Freeman (1948), p. 169
“This cruel Prince that made his Will a Law.”
Fab. XII: Of the Frogs desiring a King
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 108.