Break Quote by George Savile

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them

— Jonathan Swift

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of…

— Anonymous

Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them

— Fred Rodell

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

— Otto von Bismarck

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

— Massad Ayoob

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

— Chaim Weizmann

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

— John Quincy Adams

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

— Lydia M. Child

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not…

— Thomas Jefferson

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge