Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. РHonor̩ de Balzac

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

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