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

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

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

—Confucius, c. 500

Petty laws breed great crimes.

—Ouida, 1880

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

War has silenced all laws.

—Lucan, c. 65

The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.

—Frederick Douglass, 1878

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.

—Rwandan proverb