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“Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.”

Law Life Is Struggle Birth Agony Life Is A Struggle

Author:David Gemmell

“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

“A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.”

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Author:Georges Bernanos

“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source: The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications

“Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.”

Hard Law Birth Wings Abortion Terrified Right Wing Stride Birth Control Law Making

Author:Erica Jong

“In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.”

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Book:Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

Source: Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

“[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.”

Ifs Law Birth Favors Birth Control

Author:Florence Prag Kahn

“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”

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Author:African Spir