Breach Quote by Richard Davenport-Hines

“Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive…

— Richard Dawkins

It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

“Routine comes down like twilight on a harsh landscape, softening it until it is tolerable. The complexity is too subtle, too varied; the values…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Jonathan Swift

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be…

— George Soros

“Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question…

— Frank Herbert

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly…

— Robert Menzies

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break…

— Dan Pearce

Morality, when formal, devours.

— Albert Camus