Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

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.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

There is but one law for all … the law of nature.

The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

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.

Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

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.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.