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“The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.”
― John Lescroart, A Plague of Secrets

“First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.”
― Michael J. Sandel, Liberalism and Its Critics

“A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Christians and the Law-Courts

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.”
― Francis Bacon

“Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.”
― Rousseau

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.”
― Kiersten White, Paranormalcy

“One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”
― Ammon Hennacy

“Laws are made not to be broken.
They are made to curb our savagery.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.”
― William Ewart Gladstone

“You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.”
― Richard Curtis

“Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.”
― Walter Savage Landor

“Laws become fragile under the influence of dictators.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The Laws Of God, The Laws Of Man

The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Now I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong,
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn or Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.”
― A.E. Housman, Last Poems

“They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs. MacAvelly suggested.

"Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em—nor God—nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?"

(from According to Solomon)”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“Love permeates all things and laws.
Scientists should research it more.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Error of omission begets new rules.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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― Su. Venkatesan, வீரயுக நாயகன் வேள்பாரி, முதல�� தொகுதி

“Let me see what I can come up with,' she said, and seemed to take a new satisfaction in it now. Something wrong to do, a law to break, and if she was lucky she might even get to steal, and it must have been then that everything changed between us and each of us didn't just have a neighbor to pass the time with but the closest thing either of us could find to a friend. ("Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls")”
― Brian Hodge, Best New Horror 22

“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Laws were made by men, and men made mistakes.”
― Joan D. Vinge, 47 Ronin

“Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present