Laws and decrees are governed by the rules and regulations of the officials and the people. --Guan Zhong

The law is the formula of the world and the instrument of all ages. --Shen Jiaben

Law is the highest rationality, and it is rooted in nature that governs actions that should be done and prohibits actions that should not be done. When this highest rationality is firmly established and fully developed in human reason, it is Dharma.

--Cicero

Law is the declaration of the general will. --Rousseau

Laws and laws are issued by the government, and punishments must be based on the people's hearts. Rewards must be based on careful law, and punishments must be imposed on those who treacherously order.

--Shang Yang

The law is such a social norm. When it is ignored or violated, a person or group enjoying a socially recognized privilege often uses physical coercion, either threatened or actually, against the violator.

--Hobel

To make things consistent with justice, there must be an unbiased balance, and law is exactly such a middle-of-the-road balance.

--Aristotle

Law is the art of kindness and justice. -- Celsus

I understand law as a highly specialized form of social control in a developed, politically organized society - a social control through the systematic and orderly application of social force. In this sense, it is a way of governing that I call the order of law.

--Pound

Law is the cause of making people's behavior subject to rule governance. --Fowler

For the law, apart from my actions, I do not exist at all. I am not the object of the law at all.

--Marx

Any normative adjustment of people's behavior cannot be effective if it is connected only with prohibitions and obligations.

--Javits

Only people without historical knowledge do not know that monarchs have to obey economic conditions at all times and can never give orders to economic conditions. Whether it is political legislation or civil legislation, it is only a requirement to express and record economic relationships.

--Marx

What legislators create are norms, but what legal science expresses are rules. The former is prescriptive, while the latter is narrative.

--Kelsen