Morality is used to regulate selfishness.
Laws and freedom
There is no freedom without the freedom to make mistakes and fail.
Laws [816 - 1282]
What we humans value in this world are not rights, but privileges.
Where power has right, right has no power.
Just as laws are needed to uphold high morals, so high morals are needed to uphold laws.
An act is not punishable because it is immoral, but immoral because it is punishable.
Only the victors decide what were war crimes.
We hang petty thieves and raise our hats to the big ones.
Crime must be covered with a crime.
Morality is used to regulate selfishness.
The more laws the government creates, the more criminals there will be.
The laws are like the spider's web; the wasp gets through, the fly gets stuck.
If you defend a mistake made, then you make a mistake again.
Crisis does not read the law book.
Do not accept theft or misappropriation of other people's property, nor the obtaining of one's own advantages through bribery and corruption of friendship.
Corruption is a highway beside the official road.
Corruption
is a part of life in most countries. It is about favors and reciprocal favors
or bribes, where the powerful gain the most and the others suffer.
Freedom
We have our full freedom, as long as we don't use it.
Man is free like the bird in the cage. He can move - within certain limits.
Most of us in this world want security, not freedom.
Necessity frees us from the difficulty of choosing.
Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.
There is no freedom without the freedom to make mistakes and fail.
Freedom is worth nothing if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
If freedom means anything, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.
Freedom breeds lawlessness, lawlessness leads to oppression, and oppression leads back to freedom.
Disobedience is the true foundation of freedom. Obedients are slaves.
If you don't like solitude, you won't love freedom.
Thoughts are free. The spoken words are observed.
Freedom cannot be simulated.
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