Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbIn a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbTo make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbThe more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbThe law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964