law Quotes

“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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“People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city’s walls.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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“What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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“But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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“There's no way to rule innocent men.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

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