What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer

Law is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
Vladimir Putin

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden

Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Charles de Montesquieu

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
Tony Blair

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.
Tori Amos

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.
James Patterson

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Greta Garbo