Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.
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When then the law has spoken in general terms, and there arises a case of exception to the general rule, it is proper, in so far as the lawgiver omits the case and by reason of his universality of statement is wrong, to set right the omission by ruling it as the lawgiver himself would rule were he there present, and would have provided by law had he foreseen the case would arise.
The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law alone and not by nature.
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
fear / Law / philosophy
To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life’s meaning.
Law / Life / personality / untrue
The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.
incitement / intolerance / Law / Right / tolerance
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy), Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism), Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism), Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic).