"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

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Source : A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709) See Anacharsis 1

Jonathan Swift

#Inspirational Quotes #Law Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.”
“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”
“As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.”
“We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.”
“Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.”
“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”
“Taken out of context I must seem so strange.”
“Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.”

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