Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984
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All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbAvoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCGood men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100