The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbThe law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbAll law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCTo make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395