„Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of people.“

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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„That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.“
— Arundhati Roy
„When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.“
— Arundhati Roy
„You can’t make people happy by law.“
— Terry Pratchett
„D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.“
— Arundhati Roy
„Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy and consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.“
— Terry Pratchett