Maximus Opus

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.”
― Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

“What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?
They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato