The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverb
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However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbThe greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904