those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.”

— James Mill, Essay on Government

From Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

for a being who, from the very start, would be an exact co-incidence with himself, in a perfect plenitude, the notion of having-to-be would have no meaning. One does not offer an ethics to a God.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity