James Fitzjames Stephen: Quotes about laws

James Fitzjames Stephen was Indian judge. Explore interesting quotes on law.
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“To say that the law of force is abandoned because force is regular, unopposed, and beneficially exercised, is to say that day and night are now such well-established institutions that the sun and moon are mere superfluities.”

James Fitzjames Stephen

Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 5

“The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.”

James Fitzjames Stephen

A General View Of The Criminal Law Of England (1863)

“To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man’s eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash”

James Fitzjames Stephen

Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 4 : The Doctrine of Liberty in its Application to Morals