“Citizen Vain (The Sonnet)
All the law in the world cannot bring order,
In a society where the citizens are indifferent.
A citizen responsible is a society responsible,
A citizen on guard is a society with upliftment.
If the citizen can't tell right from wrong on their own,
It's not order but merely a revolting illusion of order.
Take away all punishment and you shall soon find out,
Law only forces repression, not reformation of disorder.
Without an actual reformation of the citizen's mind,
Sooner or later all nations end up in fundamentalist dump.
Pay less attention to law, and more attention to education,
Humanizing education is the only cure for the hoodlums.
In a world full of citizen vain, be a citizen vanguard!
There can be no order, unless the citizens stand on guard.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“It's time to take law into our hands as unarmed and unyielding order incarnate.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Law is there to enforce punishment, that's why it's called law enforcement. Civilians are meant to stand dutybound for order, that's why it's called civic duty, my friend.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Love-Abiding Law (The Sonnet)
Love is the master-key to social troubles,
Law is but an inferior and cheaper stand-in.
Instead of obsessing over cooking up more law,
Let's shift the focus on loving and caring.
Do you think love is nothing but a commercial object,
With your olympian authority which you can legalize!
Who do you think you are that you'll legalize order!
You can legalize toys, telephones, not love and light.
Know your place, o puny apes, on a puny little blue dot,
Before standing as authority bearing your badge of law.
There are more things in the vastness of time and space,
Than dreamt up in your paleolithic construct of law.
An ounce of love brings more change than a 100 pounds of law.
What we need is not law-abiding love, but love-abiding law.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Love is the master-key to social troubles, law is but an inferior and cheaper stand-in.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“There are more things in the vastness of time and space than dreamt up in your paleolithic construct of law.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“I'm Above The Law (The Sonnet)
Yes, I am above the law,
So is every single world builder.
It's only the apes without brain who,
Are tamed by the medieval lawmaker.
If you are to be a civilized being,
It is your duty to rise above the law.
If you can't tell right from wrong,
It is common sense you lack, not law.
It is nothing but a juvenile democracy,
That is founded on spineless law-abidance.
Civilized democracy instills accountability,
What it doesn't demand is boneheaded obedience.
You have a heart, brain and spine, why not use them!
Stand up o citizen justice, and keep the law as servant.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Law is like a band-aid. Band-aids don't heal the wound, they only prevent further infection while your natural immune system does the healing. Likewise, law doesn't cure crime, it only keeps crime in check, while individual accountability treats the inhumanity that causes crime. And at some point the band-aid must come off, because, just like a body covered in band-aid is the sign of a sick person, a society covered in law is the sign of a sick species.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross.”
Source: The Quiet Light: A Novel About Thomas Aquinas
“But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife