Famous quotes containing the words original and/or rules:
“The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himselfwho according to the Rabbins was also the first authornot being an original; the only original author being God.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society: to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society.”
—John Locke (16321704)