Seneca the Younger Quotes
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Moral Essays, Volume II: Consolation to Marcia. On the Happy Life. On Leisure. On Tranquility of Mind. On Shortness of Life. Consolation to Polybius. Consolation to Helvia. Translated by John W. Basore, Harvard University Press, 1932, p. 139.
This is the ethical and moral foundation of the doctrine adopted at the Nuremberg German War Crimes trials. Required obedience to an improper/illegal order is not a defense.
He was stating for France what the English King James I had said a few decades earlier. See {616307}.
After being castigated by the Pope, Lameddais broke with the Church and concentrated on publishing and politics.
In the American system, we do not oppose any religion. We do oppose the right of any religion to use the power of the state and governments to compel or use government resources to promote or subsidize their religion. Other countries have established churches or a national religion. In that sense, some religions perceive America objects to their religion because we do not make it our established religion. Opposing prayer in public schools is not opposing prayer. It is only opposing prayer in that specific context where all payers are paying including the non believers in that particular religion.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ˈsɛnɪkə/; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist from the Silver Age of Latin literature.
