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War makes thieves and peace hangs them. - George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. – Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own

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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus, Annals

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Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. – Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. – Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954

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