When law can do no right,
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Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbNecessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959