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> [For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/for-what-you-call-the-law-is-but-a-club-of-the-rich-over-the-lowest/)

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## More by Gerrard Winstanley

> [Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/propriety-and-single-interest-divides-the-people-of-a-land-and-the/)

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> [For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/for-what-you-call-the-law-is-but-a-club-of-the-rich-over-the-lowest/)

[Gerrard Winstanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerrard-winstanley/)

> [While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/while-men-are-gazing-up-to-heaven-imagining-after-a-happiness-or/)

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> [If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/if-many-have-their-turns-to-rule-this-will-encourage-all-men-to/)

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> [Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/was-the-earth-made-to-preserve-a-few-covetous-proud-men-to-live-at/)

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> [Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/everyone-that-gets-an-authority-into-his-hands-tyrannizes-over-others/)

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> [When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrard-winstanley/when-the-people-stare-at-the-sky-and-dream-of-blessedness-or-when/)

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