The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC
Archive
Quotes
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbMan is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCHe that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCHe that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCEvery adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940