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Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.

—Rwandan proverb

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

A functioning police state needs no police.

—William S. Burroughs, 1959

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

—Roman proverb

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

—James Joyce, 1939

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765

Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

—Quentin Crisp, 1984

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100