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If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
Thomas Jefferson
Law and Politics, Vice and Virtue
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno)
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
1984
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Nicollo Machiavelli
The Prince
We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
...Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's World
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