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"Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila
submitted 3 years ago by magnora7 from self.quotes
[–]CarlDung 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
noice
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Saved (and screenshot-ed since i only really trust some of my own machines... :) )
[–]sudd3nclar1ty 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Funny imagery this, that multiplying laws calcified the body until everything freezes up. We're still alive, but trapped in position like statues.
I rather like this quote on modern culture:
"In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young—-well, not even the young anymore—-need to obey. Funny, because the root of the word obey is from the French verb meaning “to listen, or to give ear to.” It was never intended as a militant word, but one of hearing, of understanding. Of getting it. For a world obsessed with staying in constant communication, we aren’t really very good listeners."
Heather Choate Davis
[–]iraelmossadreddit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
I was just looking at the hunting and fishing regulations in my state. It's 322 pages of text. It's impossible to leave your home without breaking some law.
[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Too late. By being alive you're already breaking laws. By being dead too.
[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Just discovered a similar quote:
"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous." ~ Tacitus
End quote in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAr7bpUCDBg
Bonus:
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." ~ Samuel Butler
End quote in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt0r1WOjtpM
"Politics have no relation to morals." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
End quote in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlbl_qvJRHE
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i like this guys quotes, hes got some good ones
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