I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb ...my inspiration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass--a idiot. If that's t...he eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience--by experience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All great things bring about their own destruction through an act of self-overcoming: thus the law of life will have it, the law o...f the necessity of "self-overcoming" in the nature of life--the lawgiver himself eventually receives the call: "patere legem, quam ipse tulisti." In this way Christianity as a dogma was destroyed by its own morality; in the same way Christianity as morality must now perish, too: we stand on the threshold of this event. After Christian truthfulness has drawn one inference after another, it must end by drawing its most striking inference, its inference against itself; this will happen, however, when it poses the question "what is the meaning of all will to truth?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,... And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse wit...h the other sex sexually, at any time of life.... During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle--yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »