Law Quotes

• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
  Plato
•  It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The life of the law has not been logic; it has been reason.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes
•  An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
  Mahatma Gandhi
•  You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
  C. S. Lewis
•  The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
  Mahatma Gandhi
•  Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
  Mark Twain 

• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
  Abraham Lincoln
•  Law and justice are not always the same.
  Gloria Steinem
•  The law is reason free from passion.
  Aristotle
•  The good of the people is the chief law.
  Cicero
•  Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
  Sophocles