Origen on the (im)possibility of all peoples following the same law

"[...]we believe that at some time the Logos will have overcome the entire rational nature, and will have remodelled every soul to his own perfection, when each individual simply by the exercise of his freedom will choose what the Logos wills and will be in that state which he has chosen. [...] it is probably true that such a condition is impossible for those who are still in the body; but it is certainly not impossible after they have been delivered from it." (Con. Cel. VIII,72)

Origen on Rom 13

"We ought to despise the kindly disposition of men and of emperors if to propitiate them means not only that we have to commit murders and acts of licentiousness and savagery, but also that we have to blaspheme the God of the universe or make some servile and cringing utterance, alien to men of bravery and nobility who, together with the other virtues, wish to possess courage as the greatest of them. Here we are doing nothing contrary to the law and word of God." (Con. Cel. VIII,64)

Origen on following local laws and the goodwill of evil people

"We would not wish that men who want us to live lives as wicked as theirs should be kindly disposed to no one who chooses the opposite to them. The reason for this is that their goodwill makes us enemies of God, who probably does not become kindly disposed towards those who want to have the goodwill of men of that sort." (Con. Cel. VIII,27)

Origen on piety not consisting in keeping civil law

"[...]in our view no one will be able to know the origin of evils if he has not realized that it is an evil to suppose that piety is preserved by keeping the established laws of states in the ordinary sense of the word." (Con. Cel. IV,65)

Origen on uniting all under one law

"After this he utters a sort of wish: Would that it were possible to unite under one law the inhabitants of Asia, Europe, and Libya, both Greeks and barbarians even at the furthest limits. As if he though this impossible he continues that he who thinks this know nothing. [...] his remark about uniting every rational being under one law is not only possible but even true. [...] at some time the Logos will have overcome the entire rational nature, and will have remodelled every soul to his perfection, when each individual simply by the exercise of his freedom will choose what the Logos wills and will be in that state which he has chosen. [...] it is probably true that such a condition is impossible for those who are still in the body; but it is certainly not impossible after they have been delivered from it." (Con. Cel. 8,72)