„Has he therefore outwitted the law? Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.“
— Mikhail Bakunin
„A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb: "Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far." If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.“
— Theodore Roosevelt