The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverb
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbAn unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCIn a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbThe law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964