Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too wel

Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. – Hermann Keyserling

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