Assembly Quote by Edward Gibbon

“In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right…

— Ayn Rand

“Demeter became a “law” because a human being decided so; don’t be fooled by its grandiose name.”

— Sandi Metz

“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract,…

— George Washington

“When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims, then money becomes its creators' avenger.…

— Ayn Rand

“but that the production of lawlessness was an appropriate way to find murderers who could be recruited for organized actions.”

— Timothy Snyder

“You can’t tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have…

— Rex Stout

The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the…

— Peter Kropotkin

“For by giving it some hard thought, by considering the whole thing calmly, I could see that the trouble with the guillotine was that…

— Albert Camus

“It is not law, in any conceivable form, that is responsible for the tensions and alienation besetting modern man; rather, it is the increasing…

— René Girard

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

— A. P. Herbert

“They stared each other down again. And Lorcan knew that if he wanted, he could wait until she was asleep, take it for himself,…

— Sarah J. Maas

“There was a difference between violent, destructive crimes and bending rules that were prejudiced or predatory to start.”

— Angela Flournoy