The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCWhen law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverb