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“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”

Men Humans Law Night Human Beings Animal Break Dangerous Instinct Destructive Lions Primitive Bulls Herds Nuisance Fetch Primitive Man Law Breakers

Author:Carl Jung

“Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.”

Reason Law Social Progress Depends Habit Instinct Guidance Remove Assurance Social Progress

Author:Emily Blackwell

“Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany. That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.”

World Believe Persons Country Eye Able Law Order Fighting Revolution Months Fellows Property Instinct Witness Germany Englishmen Present Day Law And Order Frenchmen

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?”

Humans Reason Law Passion Conscience Forgiving Instinct Infallible

Author:Honore de Balzac

“To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.”

Humans Has Beens Law Instinct Arise Shelter

Book:The New Meaning of Treason

Source: The New Meaning of Treason

“we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.”

World May Helping Law Next Mystery This World Instinct This Life Commonplace

Book:Deephaven and Other Stories

Source: Deephaven and Other Stories

“The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.”

Law Religion Religious Instinct Replaced Philanthropy

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season