Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.

The law itself follows gold.

The law itself follows gold.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of read more

…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching read more

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.