Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
Quotations
Law
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
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
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
-C. J. Hill
"Slayers"
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honoré De Balzac
The law will never make a men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
-E. A. Bucchianeri
"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly"
