Quotes About Hammurabi

#1. The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation
of the hands.

L. M. Boyd

#2. Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak.

Code Of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.

#3. The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Mesopotamia
will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

Hammurabi

#5. By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.

Marvin Ammori

#6. I see my beauty in you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#7. If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

Hammurabi

#8. The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

G.H. Hardy

#9. If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

Hammurabi

#10. There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Erica Jong

#11. Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them.

Daniel Dennett

#12. If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Hammurabi

#13. Hammurabi's Code, for example, established a pecking order of superiors, commoners and slaves. Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained. Despite

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. [T]he State ... gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

Benjamin Tucker

#15. Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

Carl Hagelin

#16. The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

Code Of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.

#17. If a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

Hammurabi

#18. Hope was cruel. It could be an act of torture far more profound than despair.

Michelle Sagara

#19. Power in any Form ... when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

John Adams

#20. In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

James Ellis

#21. Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

Benjamin Whichcote

#22. I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

Hammurabi

#23. Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

Poul Anderson