Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. – Niccolo Machiavelli
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, theres an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives. – Marquis De Sade
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the 70s and 80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. – Patricia Ireland
