Impossible/law

Famous quotes containing the words impossible and/or law:

“What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it stares us in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing’s name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.—For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“In a democracy—even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one—the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)