However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896
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If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCNo law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbThe law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbIn a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbThe greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbGood men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844