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title: "4 Law Contempt Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mead/the-contempt-for-law-and-the-contempt-for-the-human-consequences-of/)

[Margaret Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mead/)

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> [To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-cady-stanton/to-make-laws-that-man-cannot-and-will-not-obey-serves-to-bring-all/)

[Elizabeth Cady Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-cady-stanton/)

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> [In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bhagat-singh/in-the-statement-accompanying-the-text-of-lahore-conspiracy-case/)

[Bhagat Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bhagat-singh/)

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> [A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-cady-stanton/a-very-wise-father-once-remarked-that-in-the-government-of-his/)

[Elizabeth Cady Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-cady-stanton/)

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