Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Law
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Sometimes it seems that those with the greatest disregard for our laws are the same people in charge of creating or enforcing them.
-Steve Maraboli
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have no laws at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
-Michel De Montaigne
