1. Kant's famous legal sayings mentioned in "Eternal Peace":

We cannot expect the king to philosophize or the philosopher to become the king, and we cannot hope so, because we have power. It will inevitably corrupt rational free judgment. But neither the king nor the kingly people (who rule themselves according to equal laws) should make such philosophers disappear or silence them, but should let them speak openly;

This is in contrast to the It is indispensable to both their causes, and since such philosophers are by nature incapable of intrigues and cliques, they are not susceptible to the slander of propagandists.

2. Rousseau’s famous legal saying in “The Social Contract”:

The purpose of a social treaty is to protect the contracting parties. To achieve the goal, you must use means, and these means are inseparable from certain risks and even certain sacrifices. If a person relies on others to save his own life, he will also sacrifice his own life when the lives of others need to be protected.

And the citizen himself should not judge what kind of danger the law requires him to take. When the monarch says to him, "You have to die for the country," he should die; because of this, he always enjoys safety, so that his life is not a simple gift of nature, but a kind of country. Conditional gift.

3. Rousseau’s famous legal saying in “On Political Economy”:

Do we want people to be kind? Well, we should first make them love the country. However, if the country treats them the same as it treats foreigners, if the country only gives them what they have to give to anyone, how can they be patriotic?

If they cannot even enjoy the right to social security, and their life, freedom and property are at the mercy of powerful people, and cannot (or are not allowed to) receive legal protection, then it will be even worse. Too bad. They have to fulfill their obligations in a civilized social state, but they cannot even enjoy the general rights and interests in the state of nature, nor can they use their own power to protect themselves.

In this case, they would be in the worst situation a free man could imagine. At this time, in their eyes, the word "country" is something completely abominable and ridiculous.

4. Martin Luther King’s famous saying about the law in a speech:

We will compare our ability to endure suffering with your ability to create suffering. We will use the power of our souls to resist your material violence. We will not resort to hatred against you, but we will not submit to your unjust laws either. You can continue to do whatever atrocities you want to us, and we will still love you.

You placed bombs in our homes and terrorized our children. You allowed thugs wearing KKK peaked hats into our neighborhoods. You beat us on some roadsides until we were half dead. However, we still love you.

5. In "The Old Regime and the Great Revolution", Tocqueville expressed a "paradox" he discovered when studying the legal background of the French Revolution:

The revolutionary It doesn't always happen because people are getting worse off. What often happens is that people who have endured the most unbearable laws without complaint and as if nothing happened throw them away violently as soon as the pressure of the law is relieved. A regime destroyed by a revolution is almost always better than the one that preceded it.

And experience tells us that for a bad government, the most dangerous moment is usually when it starts reform. ... People endure suffering patiently, thinking that all the evils that have been eliminated seem to make it easier to notice that other evils still exist, so people's emotions are more intense: the pain has indeed been alleviated, but the senses have become more keen.