law Quotes

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“It was as if she had been made afresh, out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law unto herself, without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“Thou hast been with the Monkey People—the gray apes—the people without a law—the eaters of everything.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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“one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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“The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Passports are only good for annoying honest folks, and aiding in the flight of rogues.”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

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“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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