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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. – Grover Whalen

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. – Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own

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