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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."
"Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes."
"But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
"No one could, therefore, rely on the law, and justice no longer existed."
Explore more quotes by Richard Burton
"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."
"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
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