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

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

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations