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

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Better no law than no law enforced.

—Danish proverb

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1984

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

If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.

—Confucius, c. 500

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

—Roman proverb

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

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661
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