Japanese-literature Quote by Eiji Yoshikawa

“When the people change, the palace cannot hold.”

— Naomi Alderman

“When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.”

— Evan Meekins

“the rulers were, in serious senses, whether willingly or unwillingly, the prisoners of their own rhetoric; they played games of power according to rules…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness…

— Gore Vidal

“How shameful it is that you remain estranged from Your authority! ‘You’, the holder of all the authority, the owner of a vast kingdom,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Courts. To be seen as you would see the Tower of London or menagerie of Versailles with their lions, tigers, hyænas, and other beasts…

— Albert Jay Nock

“Blame is very tricky in that it seems like a way out when it is really a form of imprisonment.”

— Bryant McGill

“The only indestructible palace is in the heart.”

— Michael D. O'Brien

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

— John Donne

“It's how the English run their courts. They sacrifice innocents, thinking to keep evil at bay, and call it a kind of justice. But…

— Kathleen Kent

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.”

— Anonymous