Westley stared at him carefully. “Victor…I understand how you must feel but the rules Dracula upheld—”
“Were the same very rules that allowed the Dark World to fall,” he finished coldly.
Stichwörter: rules vampires rule vampire the-immortal-s-guide victor-vonderheide
He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly."
"It's nature," she said, thoughtfully.
"I have a lot of disagreements with nature," he said, looking confused, and his downy brow wrinkled over his eyes.
Stichwörter: nature rules peter-pan tiger-lily
Rules kill art.
H.G. MewisStichwörter: art rules h-g-mewis
Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.
Infallibility is a sin in any man.
All laws can be broken and are.
Often.
Stichwörter: man corruption right-and-wrong rules laws
They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in with a gun or bomb.
It leaves him breathless at times, how much faith people put in one another. So fragile, the social contract: we will all stand by the rules, move with care and gentleness, invest in the infrastructure, agree with the penalties of failure. That this man driving his truck down the street won't, on a whim, angle into the plate glass and end things. That the president won't let his hand hover over the red button and, in moment of rage or weakness, explode the world. The invisible tissue of civilization: so thin, so easily rendable. It's a miracle that it exists at all.
Stichwörter: humanity people civilization trust rules laws fragility social-contract
People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
Richard RohrStichwörter: creativity rules second-half-of-life
With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.
Lauren OliverStichwörter: love freedom relationships rules
RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW
BEWARE OF DOG
ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES
DO NOT STEAL QUEENS
A GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINS
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATION
EVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATER
WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP
Stichwörter: humor rules laws fairyland
Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.
Eliezer YudkowskyStichwörter: rules space physicss
You make your own rules and then break one, that's really horrible.
Moath AlmasriStichwörter: rules
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