Sunday, January 02, 2005
“Morality which is based on ideas, or an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.”
- D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930), English writer, poet and critic: “Fantasia of the Unconscious”, 1922.
“Any law which violates the indefeasible rights of man is in essence unjust and tyrannical; it is no law.”
- Maximilien Robespierre (1758 – 1794), French revolutionary: “Déclaration des Droits de l’homme”, 1793.
“Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
- Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), English lexicographer, poet, critic, conversation-alist and essayist: in Boswell, “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, 1791.
“We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.”
- Lord Macaulay (1800 – 1859), English Liberal statesman, essayist and poet: ‘Moore’s Life of Byron’, 1843.
- D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930), English writer, poet and critic: “Fantasia of the Unconscious”, 1922.
“Any law which violates the indefeasible rights of man is in essence unjust and tyrannical; it is no law.”
- Maximilien Robespierre (1758 – 1794), French revolutionary: “Déclaration des Droits de l’homme”, 1793.
“Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
- Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), English lexicographer, poet, critic, conversation-alist and essayist: in Boswell, “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, 1791.
“We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.”
- Lord Macaulay (1800 – 1859), English Liberal statesman, essayist and poet: ‘Moore’s Life of Byron’, 1843.
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