Crime Quote by Mark Twain

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.--Mark Twain”

— Andi Marquette

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular

— Benjamin Disraeli

Bad laws make bad customs.

— Jane Aiken Hodge

Laws are subordinate to custom.

— Plautus

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

In America, law substitutes for custom.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

— Mason Cooley

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those…

— George Savile

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot…

— Harriet Martineau

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries…

— Alan Dershowitz

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

— Evan Esar