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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Albert Einstein
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Winston Churchill
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
Buddha
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”
Mark Twain
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Samuel Johnson
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom”
Ayn Rand
“The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”