There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
Doris Lessing

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Charles de Montesquieu

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Charles de Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Charles de Montesquieu

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Charles de Montesquieu

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
Isadora Duncan

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John W. Gardner

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
Paul Dirac

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
Mikhail Bakunin

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
Kofi Annan

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
Jesse Ventura