Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Author: Cormac McCarthy Copy Quote More from Cormac McCarthy “In that long ago somewhere very near this place he'd watched a falcon fall down…” “You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday i…” “It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has…” “For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?”