Behave Quote by Paulo Coelho

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment.

— Paulo Coelho

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

— Elvira Nabiullina

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

— Massad Ayoob

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

— Kathy Acker

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach…

— Robert H. Jackson

The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation…

— Barack Obama

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the…

— John Locke

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

— David L. Bazelon

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

— Albert Einstein

The question is, does the punishment fit the crime? So we're not saying that we shouldn't punish people. We're not talking about a society…

— Valerie Jarrett

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon