Bad laws make bad customs.

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.

— 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…

— Abraham Lincoln

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

— Edmund Burke

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The visitor shrugged. "Like euthanasia? I'm sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of a society are what make something a crime or not…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them." Pastor Butch Paugh”

— Tarrin P. Lupo

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one…

— Alexander Hamilton

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

— Denis Diderot

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

— Tom Driberg

“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of…

— Frank Zappa

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

— Wendell Phillips

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad…

— Alexander Bickel

There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by…

— Malcolm Gladwell