No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
Stephen Colbert

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Yasser Arafat

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
Spike Lee

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Will Durant

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Brigham Young

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
Dee Hock

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
Daniel Webster

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

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Quentin Crisp

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes