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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of read more
…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when read more
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for read more
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.
Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.