Famous quotes containing the words rank and/or codes:
“Do not use your rank to degrade others, nor use your cleverness to deceive others.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)