“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
Source: Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
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“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”
Corey Robin (1967) American academic
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Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power
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“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
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Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God