Law

Famous quotes containing the word law:

“There ought to be a law against necessity.”
—E.Y. Harburg (1898–1981)

“Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)