War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.
In those days [after Samson's death] there was no king in Israel, but every man did what was right in his own eyes.
A liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws.
Locke and most others rejected this notion of freedom, seeing it in the modern sense of anarchy.
The real scandal in Washington is not what is against the law. It is what is not against the law.
The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.
I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?
With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.