Quotes about Universal Law
There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.
- Oprah Winfrey
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.
- Aristotle
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
- St. Jerome
The privileges of a few do not make common law.
- Saint Jerome
To whatever extent your mind is aligned with love, you will receive divine compensation for any lack in your material existence. From spiritual substance will come material manifestation. This is not just a theory; it is a fact. It is a law by which the universe operates. I call it the Law of Divine Compensation.
- Marianne Williamson
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.
- Alice Hoffman
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.
- Edmund Burke
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the laws regulating human society are so formed as to come into collision with the nature of things, and in particular with the fundamental realities of human nature, they will end by producing an impossible situation which, unless the laws are altered, will issue in such catastrophes as war, pestilence and famine. Catastrophes thus caused are the execution of universal law upon arbitrary enactments which contravene the facts; they are thus properly called by theologians, judgments of God.
- Dorothy Sayers
Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.
- John Milton