Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 21 (p. 223)
“In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.”
The Woman's Bible (1898)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton book The Woman's Bible
The Woman's Bible (1898)
Source: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588
“Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.”
Ted Malloch (1952) American businessman
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 36.
“The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues.”
John Bascom (1827–1911) American academic administrator
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Context: The words 'law and order' have so frequently been misused as an excuse for oppression that the very phrase has become suspect in countries which have known authoritarian rule. [... ] There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. Law as an instrument of state oppression is a familiar feature of totalitarianism. Without a popularly elected legislature and an independent judiciary to ensure due process, the authorities can enforce as 'law' arbitrary decrees that are in fact flagrant negations of all acceptable norms of justice. There can be no security for citizens in a state where new 'laws' can be made and old ones changed to suit the convenience of the powers that be. The iniquity of such practices is traditionally recognized by the precept that existing laws should not be set aside at will.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) England-born American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist
Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
Medicine and Morality (1881)
“Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.”
rursus prosperum ac felix scelus virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni, ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor.
Seneca the Younger Hercules Furens
Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 251-253; (Amphitryon)
Alternate translation: Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. (translator unknown)
Alternate translation: Might makes right. (translator unknown).
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