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War has silenced all laws.

—Lucan, c. 65

A functioning police state needs no police.

—William S. Burroughs, 1959

The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964

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

—James Joyce, 1939

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

—Emma Goldman, 1917

The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.

—George Eliot, 1860

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

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

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

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.

—Confucius, c. 500

Kings and fools know no law.

—German proverb