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“To live outside the law, you must be honest.”
Bob Dylan
“Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom”
Ayn Rand
“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
Julius Caesar
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law”
Sophocles
“It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man”
Confucius
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