- When the end is lawful, the means are also lawful.
-- Hermann Busenbaum (or Busembaum) (1600-1688)... - Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrate
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud, and vain.... - 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 (1835-1902)... - Theist and Atheist: The fight between them is as to whether
God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)... - It is man's greatest crime to have been born.
- 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 CE)... - The Church abhors bloodshed.
- 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- )...
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