Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. – Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe

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