Han Fei Quotes

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

We have a great many chiefs and headmen but, be they ever so great, they must all abide by the laws ... These laws are not made for any person in particular but for all.

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded by ill mend but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

When you know the law, you're above the law. When you break the law, you're under the law.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.