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Quotes

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661

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

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

Petty laws breed great crimes.

—Ouida, 1880

A functioning police state needs no police.

—William S. Burroughs, 1959

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

—James Joyce, 1939

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

War has silenced all laws.

—Lucan, c. 65

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

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

Better no law than no law enforced.

—Danish proverb

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.

—Tacitus, c. 110

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100