"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things"
- Ben Okri
About this Quote
This quote by Ben Okri speaks with the idea that those in power, the "acknowledged lawmakers of the world," choose to take the world as it is and not question it. They do not like secrets, as they can not be easily understood or controlled. These lawmakers are content to stay within the accepted limits of what is understood and comprehended, and they police these borders to make sure that absolutely nothing new or unknown is permitted to get in. This quote talks to the concept that those in power are typically resistant to alter and originalities, and choose to remain within the confines of what is currently known. It likewise speaks to the idea that those in power are frequently reluctant to check out the unidentified, and instead prefer to remain within the boundaries of what is currently accepted.
This quote is written / told by Ben Okri somewhere between March 15, 1959 and today. He/she was a famous Poet from Nigeria.
The author also have 16 other quotes.
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"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"
"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers"
"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"
"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center"
"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music"
"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do"
