“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Gisela Mundt in Ch. 10
Masterclass (1988)
“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”
John Irving book A Widow for One Year
Source: A Widow for One Year (1998), part II, ch. 7
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, (1963)
Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib
Khawarazmi, Maqtal al-Husayn, vol.1, p. 234
Regarding the Advent of Karbalā
Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger
"Torture, Moral Vanity and Freedom", The Daily Dish (17 May 2007)
Context: A constitutional republic dedicated before everything to the protection of liberty cannot legalize torture and remain a constitutional republic. It imports into itself a tumor of pure tyranny. That tumor, we know from history, always always spreads, as it has spread in the US military these past shameful years. The fact that hefty proportions of US soldiers now support its use as a routine matter reveals how deep the rot has already gone. The fact that now a majority of Republican candidates proudly support such torture has rendered the GOP the party most inimical to liberty in America. When you combine torture's evil with the claims of the hard right that a president can ignore all laws and all treaties in wartime, and that "wartime" is now permanent, you have laid the ground for the abolition of the American experiment in self-government.
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
John Kass (1956) American journalist
"Evil with salad and a nice red" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-kass-planned-parenthood-met-0719-20150719-column.html (19 July 2015), Chicago Tribune, Illinois