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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 185 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Nonviolent direct action has earned them the label "terrorists."

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."

~~Marcus Tullius Cicero~~ Someone

[–] Quik 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Grrrrr, he very likely didn't say that.

The closest to it I could find is “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws” by Tacitus (The Annals of Imperial Rome).

Cicero lived at the end of the republic, his problem wasn't too many laws...

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Bang on mate. It's here in the "Misattributed" section https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero

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