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THE NEED FOR LAW
• With the person in front of you, discuss
what you think the quotation means, and
whether or not you agree with the
speaker’s message.
• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler
• 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
• You must obey the law, always, not only
when they grab you by your special place.
Vladimir Putin
• Nothing is more destructive of respect for
the government and the law of the land
than passing laws which cannot be
enforced.
• Albert Einstein
• If you have ten thousand regulations you
destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
• Lawless are they that make their wills their
law.
William Shakespeare
• At his best, man is the noblest of all
animals; separated from law and justice he
is the worst.
Aristotle
• Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's
nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon
• Hitler never abandoned the cloak of
legality; he recognized the enormous
psychological value of having the law on
his side. Instead, he turned the law inside
out and made illegality legal.
Robert Byrd
• When your conscience says law is
immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
• Whenever men take the law into their own
hands, the loser is the law. And when the
law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy
• The law does not pretend to punish
everything that is dishonest. That would
seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow
• “Where law ends, tyranny begins.”
• William Pitt
• “Law is simply the rule of the stronger.”
• Plato
• “The more numerous the laws, the more
corrupt the state.”
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
• To live outside the law, you must be
honest.
Bob Dylan