Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
—H. L. Mencken
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
—Leo Durocher
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress.… Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws.… It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success—in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.
—Noam Chomsky
I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
—George Bernard Shaw
Laws bind us. But it is important to remember the law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.
—Marilyn Manson
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
—Jonathan Swift
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
—Jean Paul
2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
—Grabel's Law
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
—Barbara Kingsolver
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
—Margaret Mead
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
—Frank Zappa
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
—Abraham Lincoln
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
—Albert Einstein
Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
—Ambrosius Macrobius
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
—Arcesilaus