The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.