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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them." »Demonax
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"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"laws are sand, customs are rock. laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment." »Mark Twain
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"Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws." »Pope Pius XI
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"Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws." »Pope Pius XI
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." »Plato
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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
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"...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet." »Hermann Hesse
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"The more laws, the less justice." »Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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"Better no law than laws not enforced." »Italian Proverb
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"There are laws for everything except the harm families do." »Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat
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"laws were made to be broken." »Christopher North
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"Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break." »Author Unknown
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"Customs are more powerful than laws." »The Talmud
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"laws do not persuade just because they threaten." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom." »Pythagorus
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"laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." »Otto von Bismark
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"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered." »Aristotle
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"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." »Tacitus
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"Good laws have their origins in bad morals." »Ambrosius Macrobius
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"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws." »Publilius Syrus
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"Go tell the Spartans,
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie." »Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae
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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon
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"Be careful in revising those immigration laws of yours.
We got careless with ours." »advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New Mexico
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"As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived." »German Proverb
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"Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws." »Karl Kraus
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"Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments." »Saville
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