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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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