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“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.”
― Politics
― Politics
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. ”
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“Your edict, King, was strong,
But all your strength is weakness itself against
The immortal unrecorded laws of God.
They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,
Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.
I knew I must die, even without your decree:
I am only mortal. And if I must die
Now, before it is my time to die,
Surely this is no hardship: can anyone
Living, as I live, with evil all about me,
Think Death less than a friend?”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
But all your strength is weakness itself against
The immortal unrecorded laws of God.
They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,
Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.
I knew I must die, even without your decree:
I am only mortal. And if I must die
Now, before it is my time to die,
Surely this is no hardship: can anyone
Living, as I live, with evil all about me,
Think Death less than a friend?”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
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