Legislate Sin

Famous quotes containing the words legislate and/or sin:

“We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)