White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. - Jack London

I trod interstellar space, exalted by the knowledge that I was bound on vast adventure, where, at the end, I would find all the cosmic formulae and have made clear to me the ultimate secret of the universe. In my hand I carried a long glass wand. It was borne in upon me that with the tip of this wand I must touch each star in passing. And I knew, in all absoluteness, that did I but miss one star I should be precipitated into some unplummeted abyss of unthinkable and eternal punishment and guilt

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer.