"It (trying to keep the law) grants you……" — William P. Young

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge… - William P. Young

"It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse."

— William P. Young

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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the… — David Attenborough
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology… — Hal Borland
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.' — Julie Burchill
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. — Hugo Chavez
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. — Lord Chesterfield
You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush. — Hillary Clinton
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. — Joseph Sobran
Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken… — William Gurnall
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself. — Eric Clapton
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has… — Primo Levi
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. — John Milton
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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