Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904
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All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCWar has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverb