1.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
John Locke
2.
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
[Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]
Ovid
3.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
Philip Sidney
6.
Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
Michel de Montaigne
7.
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
Margaret Sanger