If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
George SteinerTags: love criticism laws kafka
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: wisdom politics truth error morality morals justice democracy philosophical law christian right-and-wrong voting laws catholic catholic-author justice-system gadfly error-and-truth hard-truths bad-laws democracy-gone-wrong evil-laws referrendum votings
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
Benjamin FranklinTags: morality rules laws good-and-evil forbidden
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.
John LescroartMust the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Henry David ThoreauTags: conscience laws
The Laws Of God, The Laws Of Man
The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Now I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong,
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn or Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.
Tags: poetry god religion laws
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.
Tags: man corruption right-and-wrong rules laws
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
C.J. HillTags: laws promises broken-promises smart-people
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.
Tags: humanity people civilization trust rules laws fragility social-contract
I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks
Stanley Victor PaskavichTags: guns laws rights second-amendment gun-control assult-rifles nra
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