Law

Stanley Brand (American attorney, 2017) - Technology changes, but the law doesn’t.

John Locke - Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Kevin Murphy, Andrei Shleifer & Robert Vishny (1990) - Our evidence shows that countries with a higher proportion of engineering college majors grow faster; whereas countries with a higher proportion of law concentrators grow slower.

Charles Proctor (British lawyer, 2012) - If you want to make something happen that is generally a question of politics, if you want to prevent something that is a question of law.

William Shakespeare (in Henry VI, Part2, Act IV, Scene 2.) - The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Traditional societies of all kinds have been uncomfortable with corporations which, according to Edward Thurlow, an 18th-century British jurist, have “neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned”.