“Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears;
Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1592).
Oh life, no life, but lively form of death;
Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs,
Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds.”
The civil state regarded purely as a lawful state, is based on the following a priori principles:
These principles are not so much laws given by an already established state, as laws by which a state can alone be established in accordance with pure rational principles of external human right.
Immanuel Kant, Theory and Practice (1791).
There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), author of The Castle of Otranto (1764), Letter to Anne, Countess of Ossory (August 16, 1776).
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.