Philosophy Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“You can’t tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have…

— Rex Stout

“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say, not only…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

“Our law and our morality contradict one another.”

— Joseph Befumo

“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by…

— Stephanie Barron

“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is not enough for you to think that no man could commit such heinous acts and be deemed to be of sound mind.…

— Graeme Macrae Burnet

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

“The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying…

— Bertolt Brecht