That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

He had no right to take the law into his own hands.

Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that?

The law is the law. You broke it. You knew you were breaking it.

I told him it was wrong, I said that he mustn’t take the law in his own hands. “What law?” he said. “There isn’t any law here. And you aren’t being logical, Pod. Anything that is right for a group to do is right for one person to do.”

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

You experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them. ... Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

It is not according to my mode of doing things to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.… The law, as I view it, goes too slow for me when I have the remedy in my own hands.… I for one will never go to law when I have got the power in my own hands to see myself right. Let the other parties go to law if they want, but by God I think I know what the law is; I have had enough of it.