War Quote by Spinoza

“But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.”

— Plutarch

“Beneath the power of empire is the problem of justice. Peel that back and beneath the power of justice is the problem of violence.”

— Maurice Broaddus

“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

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the…

— C.P. Snow

“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to…

— Blaise Pascal

“The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are”

— Anonymous

“It is no doubt an evil to be full of faults, but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and…

— Ken Wytsma

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”

— Timothy Snyder

“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”

— Anonymous

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead