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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such direct

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

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Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. – S.I. Hayakawa

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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. – Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson

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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. – William Ernest Hocking

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Hunger makes a thief of any man. – Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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