“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.” MenHumansBookStatesMomentsHelpingLawReadingGamesHuman BeingsRoomsFireWifeCoupleProtectHusbandWasteOrdinaryEconomicsGardenIncreaseArmyPoliceCourtThis LifeEtcWasting TimeParliamentDiggingHusband And WifePubsChattingDarts Book:Mere Christianity Source: Mere Christianity
“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.” IfsHeartLawReadingIndividualNaturalEnemyPracticeOur LivesViolenceWrittenSecurityTheoryTrainingMethodLaysIntuitionPlotCustomsInstructionAdoptionRobbersIndividual RightsAbsorptionProtecting Ourselves Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.” LawCultureReadingLiteratureMoralGuidesAnthropology Author:David Plotz
“Laws die, books never.” BookLawDiesReadingBooks And Reading Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton