Reported in George Shelley Hughs, Ancient Civilizations (1896), p. 596.
— Edward VI of England King of England, Tudor dynasty 1537 - 1553
I will fart all I want to without being told not to.
Zdroj: Linda Porter (2010) Mary Tudor: The First Queen. p. 26: To his half-sister Mary I of England, who was ignoring his anti-Catholic laws. Greenwich, 28 January, 1551.
— Iain Banks, Culture series
Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. “Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are—ha!”—Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe—“no more than robots!”
Zdroj: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 279).
— Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987
Revolution
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
— Robert Peel British Conservative statesman 1788 - 1850
Letter to Lord Aberdeen (19 August, 1847).
Lord Mahon and Edward Cardwell (eds.), Memoirs by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel. Part II (London: John Murray, 1857), p. 322.
— Rudyard Kipling, kniha The Second Jungle Book
The Law of the Jungle, Stanzas 1 and 2.
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Kontext: p>Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.</p
— Georges Bernanos, kniha Les grands cimetières sous la lune
Zdroj: Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938, p.105
— James Russell Lowell American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891
Referring to John C. Breckenridge and Stephen A. Douglas (Abraham Lincoln's opponents)
The Election in November 1860 (1860)
— Black Kettle Leader of the Southern Cheyenne 1803 - 1868
As quoted in "Notes Among the Indians", Putnam's Magazine (October 1869), p. 476
Kontext: I always feel well while I am among these friends of mine, the Witchitas, Wacoes, and affiliated bands, and I never feel afraid to go among the white men here, because I know them to be my friends also. … I come from a point on the Washita River, about one day's ride from Antelope Hills. Near me there are over one hundred lodges of my tribe, only a part of them are my followers. I have always done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some of them will not listen. When recently north of the Arkansas, some of them were fired upon, and then the war began. I have not since been able to keep my young men at home.
— Chief Joseph Nez Percé Chieftain 1840 - 1904
Lincoln Hall Speech (1879)
— Brian W. Aldiss British science fiction author 1925 - 2017
“Man on Bridge” p. 87
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
— Edgar Guest American writer 1881 - 1959
Opportunity, p. 40.
A Heap o' Livin' (1916)
— Henry David Thoreau, kniha Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience (1849)
— Peter Kropotkin Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer 1842 - 1921
"Words of a Rebel"; as quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 26
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
In reference to Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in an Oval Office interview http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/bush.cheney.ap/, one week prior to accepting Rumsfeld’s resignation (November 1, 2006)
2000s, 2006
— Richelle Mead, kniha Last Sacrifice
Zdroj: Last Sacrifice
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax English politician 1633 - 1695
Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
— Robert E. Lee Confederate general in the Civil War 1807 - 1870
Letter to General James Longstreet (29 October 1867), as quoted in Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (1924), p. 269.
1860s
— William Penn English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania 1644 - 1718
Frame of Government (1682)
Kontext: I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, which are the rule of one, a few, and many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I chuse to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
