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“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Source : Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)
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“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”
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“The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, Abraham Cowley, Etc, A. R. Waller (2014). “Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses”, p.377, Cambridge University Press
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“Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.”
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“The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.”
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“Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.”
Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.”
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“You are the universe experiencing itself.”
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“A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”
Source : Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales
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“We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.”
