The Law Commit Legal Plunder

When Law And Morality Contradict Each Other, The Citizen Has The Cruel Alternative Of Either Losing His Moral Sense Or Losing His Respect For The Law.

Nothing Is More Senseless Than To Base So Many Expectations On The State, That Is, To Assume The Existence Of Collective Wisdom And Foresight After Taking For Granted The Existence Of Individual Imbecility And Improvidence.

It Is Indeed A Singular Thing That People Wish To Pass Laws To Nullify The Disagreeable Consequences That The Law Of Responsibility Entails. Will They Never Realize That They Do Not Eliminate These Consequences But Merely Pass Them Along To Other People? The Result Is One Injustice The More And One Moral The Less.

Often The Masses Are Plundered And Do Not Know It.

The People Who, During The Election, Were So Wise, So Moral, So Perfect, Now Have No Tendencies Whatever; Or If They Have Any, They Are Tendencies That Lead Downward To Degradation. . . . If People Are As Incapable, As Immoral, And As Ignorant As The Politicians Indicate, Then Why Is The Right Of These Same People To Vote Defended With Such Passionate Insistence?