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The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964

Petty laws breed great crimes.

—Ouida, 1880

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

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

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

—Frederick Douglass, 1878

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395