War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65
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A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverb