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War makes thieves and peace hangs them. - George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert

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The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao-tzu

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The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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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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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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