"Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security." ~Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, (from the Bene Gesserit Coda.)
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
“Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson
“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.” – Marcus Ports Cato (Cato the Elder) From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec. 19