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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."
"Mankind needs new law to embrace new science."
"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
Explore more quotes by Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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