Classic Quote by John Locke

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of…

— Howard Zinn

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

— Jonathan Swift

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In general, laws are tailored to suit the needs of the ones making them.

— Mariana Fulger

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

— Robert Greene

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Otto von Bismarck

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

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the…

— Marquis de Sade

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

— Fred Rodell