Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbAn unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 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., 1962A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbAll moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCLaws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100