Code of Manu Quotes

If the king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those worthy to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker, like fish on a spit

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

That king who pardons the perpetrator of violence quickly perishes and incurs hatred.

That king who through folly rashly oppresses his kingdom, (will), together with his relatives, ere long be deprived of his life and of his kingdom. As the lives of living creatures are destroyed by tormenting their bodies, even so the lives of kings are destroyed by their oppressing their kingdoms

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The law is cruel.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

I was the law and order.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.