Wonderful Law

Famous quotes containing the words wonderful and/or law:

    These wonderful things
    Were planted on the surface of a round mind that was to become our present time.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)