"The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws."

-- Aristotle

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“You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.”
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”

Source : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.
“I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.”
“Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.”
“I have never gotten into the label thing.”
“The real reason that we canâ€™t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post â€œThou shalt not steal,â€ â€œThou shalt not commit adultery,â€ and â€œThou shalt not lieâ€ in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.”
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”
“Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.”

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