“In ethics the Taoist railed at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them right and wrong were but relative terms.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.”— Friedrich Engels, en.wikiquote.org
“We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Men of intellectual and moral eminence who encourage public disobedience of the law are responsible for the acts of those who inevitably follow their counsel: the poor, the ignorant and the impressionable. For example, to the professor objecting to de facto segregation, it may be crystal clear where…”— Richard Nixon, wadsworth.com
“The laws that we are supposed to be fully aware of and abide by are so complex that there is an entire profession dedicated to understanding them. One that takes 8 years to master.”— bcomar93, reddit.com
“I said, "Is it illegal?" And he said, "I don't know." And so I was like, "Well, as long as we're in this legal gray area, can I keep doing it?" And he said, "You probably shouldn't."”— John Green, youtube.com
“I am trying to convince people — not only the public, but lawmakers and people in power — that investing in the frontier of science, however remote it may seem in its relevance to what you're doing today, is a way of stockpiling the seed corns of future harvests of this nation.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com
“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Now, if you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t yet have health insurance, starting in 2014 this law will offer you an array of quality, affordable, private health insurance plans to choose from. Each state will take the lead in designing their own menu of options, and if states can come up…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“Alcohol's enhancement of direct face-to-face dialogue is precisely what is needed by today's technologically agile generation, magically interconnected yet strangely isolated by social media. Clumsy hardcore sexting has sadly supplanted simple hanging out over a beer at a buzzing dive. By underminin…”— Camille Paglia, time.com