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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.


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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
TACITUS The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
TACITUS The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
CORNELIUS TACITUS When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.
PARRY AFTAB Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
CHARLES DANCE Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened bef...
JOHANN MOST The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its expone...
JOHANN MOST If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in t...
JOHANN MOST Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
JOHANN MOST Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists beca...
JOHANN MOST Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
JOHANN MOST Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself...
JOHANN MOST I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.&...
DONNY MOST It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - '...
JOHANN MOST It should be noted that these patients were all quite motivated to try this product. Facial plastic ...
SAM MOST As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and ...
JOHANN MOST The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The ...
JOHANN MOST 'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to ...
JOHANN MOST It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'volu...
JOHANN MOST The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the relig...
JOHANN MOST He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a r...
JOHANN MOST The demand for facial plastic surgical procedures has increased steadily over the past decade. But a...
SAM MOST Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.
STEVEN MAGEE revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety.
DICK CHENEY For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
LAURA ESQUIVEL Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.
LUCAS GRABEEL I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
GINGER BAKER Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
BOBBY SCOTT The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur
LEGAL MAXIM The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
MIKE PENCE Police internal affairs is amongst the most corrupt departments that you will find in governments.
STEVEN MAGEE The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
TACITUS A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be change...
ADRIAN CRONAUER The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.
DAVID BROCK There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve ...
HERMAN MELVILLE Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.
DONALD TRUMP When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE When house and land are gone and spent,/ Then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
LANA TURNER Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
ED MARKEY Winning - that's the most important to me. It's as simple as that.
CRISTIANO RONALDO The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DEFOREST KELLEY One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
DAN RATHER Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
AYRTON SENNA For the most part, if they are nonindigenous to the state and they're not endangered or threatened, ...
JACK BAKER Our Party maintains the improvement of the people's living conditions as the most important of t...
KIM JONG-UN If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially fr...
JOHN WOODEN Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially fr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.
AMIT RAY The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
JAMES CLAVELL I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.
CHARLOTTE LAMB If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...
EDMUND HUSSERL It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
WAYNE HUIZENGA The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
SIMONE WEIL The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
GERMAINE GREER The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The most important things in life aren't things.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.
MAX BAUCUS I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. LAWRENCE It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
ANGELA AHRENDTS Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.
DAYMOND JOHN Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
ARNOLD PALMER Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
DAVID GROSS Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
DOUGLAS WOOD When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or inc...
STEVEN MAGEE Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry...
TED NUGENT When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
BIBLE This is the most talented team we've ever had, and is one of the most talented teams in the state,
DAN DAVIS The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with peop...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
JOHN WOODEN He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters.
DEL ALI Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everythin...
CRISS JAMI If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We have some of the most stringent abortion laws in the country.
GINNY COPENHEFER Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England One of the most remarkable features of Mosaic legislation....
WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law e...
STEVEN MAGEE The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to co...
ALBERTO JUANTORENA The Laws of Sowing;The sower sows quality seeds,because he knows quality seeds begeths quality harve...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue
STEPHEN FRY Laws of money;Money generated from positive ventures is the most successful aspect of having money.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA The most important thing is to stay positive.
SAKU KOIVU I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE The most important thing to do is really listen.
ITZHAK PERLMAN The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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