- When the end is lawful, the means are also lawful.
Hermann Busenbaum (or Busembaum) (1600... - Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates
The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy... - Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it
by setting genius-traps in its way
Samuel Butler (1835... - Theist and Atheist: The fight between them is as to whether
God shall be called God or shall have some other name
Samuel Butler (1835... - It is man's greatest crime to have been born.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca ... - Atque ubi colitudinum faciunt pacem appellant. -- Calgacus (c
85 CE) (They create a desolation and call it peace... - Concerning players, we have thought it fit to excommunicate them so long
as they continue to act
First Council of Arles, Decree (314... - The Church abhors bloodshed. -- Council of Tours, Decree (1116 CE)
In obedience to the decree the Spanish Inquisition introduced the
auto de fe
heretics were burned alive in the public... - Populus vult decipi, decipiatur. -- Cardinal Carlo Caraffa (16th Century)
(The people want to be deceived
Nephew of Pope Paul IV let them be deceived... - There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience
Stokely Carmichael (1942- ...
