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“Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.”

Law Sin Weak Remove

Book:Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)

Source: Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)

“Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.”

Law Order Principles Duty Weak Generosity Sage Firmness Obstinacy

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Argument weak; speak loudly!”

Law Speak Argument Weak

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”

Ends Might Law Strong Waiting Interest Groups Crime Possibility Weak Leaving Circles Arise Pursue Decent Ethical Norm Cowardly

Book:Brute Orbits

Source: Brute Orbits

“Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.”

Use Body Light Law Weak Abuse Remedy Purses Recreation Bad Business

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.”

Men Art Government Law Strong Violence Kings Weak Strong Man Caprice Weak Man Duplicity

Author:Samuel Smiles

“In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.”

Way Done Success Law Order Winning Strong Loses Justice Careers Civilization Equal Weak Ancient Egypt Old Ways Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.”

Men Law Wealth Support Virtue Glory Weak Firm Anchors Tempest

Author:Pythagoras

“When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Facts Law Protect Weak Offended

Author:Katha Pollitt