To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860
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Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCBetter no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbResorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661