"The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning."

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In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

— Herman Melville