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The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

—Bob Dylan, 1966

Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.

—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1594

To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1971

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395

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

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

—Rwandan proverb

The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964