The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.
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Polly Peachum, in Act 3, scene 1, p. 74
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Variant translation: The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.Bertolt Brecht
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Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.
Ayn Rand
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. 299
Blaise Pascal
The scholars who understand it hesitate to speak out boldly for fear people will not understand. The people, who understand it quite easily, also fear to speak out while they wait for the scholars to speak out first. The difference between our present situation and that of the story is that it is not the emperor but the people who are periodically made to go naked and hungry and insecure and discontented - a ready prey to less timid organizers of discontent for the destruction of the civilization.
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Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
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I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples.
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