The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair
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Collected as "I Fought the Law in Bloomburg's New York," Love, Poverty, and War (2004).

 
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