“A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.” LawCitiesStreetsFieldsFineInternetPromiseCleanArchitectureAnarchyClassroomFree SpeechBullsObedientCleanlinessTranquil Author:Mark Helprin
“Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.” MenHumansAbleLawAcceptingVirtueSpecialHuman LifeDisplayObedient Book:Enchiridion Source: Enchiridion
“If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.” PeopleIfsStatesWould BeChristianLawIndividualPerfectDutyLuxuryVanityObedientMagistrates Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.” WorldPersonsCountryAbleLawCan DoCitiesLonelinessSolitudeMapsDictatorUp To YouObedientYour Freedom Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.” MenPersonsStatesReasonPainLawDesireJusticePleasureMoralVirtueExpectationsIdealsBoundsIllBurdenGuidesArguingFixedBeastVirtuousPenaltiesUpbringingObedientChastisementIncorrigibleBeast Of Burden Author:Aristotle