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Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

—Quentin Crisp, 1984

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

—James Joyce, 1939

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.

—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

The law is established from above but becomes custom below.

—Su Zhe, c. 1100
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