Human Positive Law

Famous quotes containing the words human, positive and/or law:

“There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)

“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)