Too many laws are a sure sign of death. Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die.
If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.
But the Hindus had one peculiar idea -- they never made any doctrines or dogmas in religion; and the latter has had the greatest growth.
Eternal law cannot be freedom, because to say that the eternal is inside law is to limit it.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Law and Freedom,
Notes from Lectures and Discourses
If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.
But the Hindus had one peculiar idea -- they never made any doctrines or dogmas in religion; and the latter has had the greatest growth.
Eternal law cannot be freedom, because to say that the eternal is inside law is to limit it.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Law and Freedom,
Notes from Lectures and Discourses
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