Betray Quote by Mark Twain

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has…

— Gregory Bateson

He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

— Thomas Aquinas

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who…

— Friedrich Ratzel

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray…

— Joseph Conrad

Every principle has a promise.

— Eric Thomas

“If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such sense as…

— G.K. Chesterton

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

— Vittorio Alfieri

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he…

— Primo Levi