Tao Te Ching
Hammurabi
c. 1810 - 1750 BCE
Father to his people and example of good government to us all
In a primitive time and place of barbaric chaos, Hammurabi not only established order, prosperity, and fairness for his own country but set an example and structure for governments of his time, throughout history and all the way to modern times. He used wisdom and irrigation to make Babylon one of the richest cities history had known and then used his power to become “a real father to his people” giving them justice, infrastructure, a higher culture, and a legal system that prevented abuse of power, oppression of the weak by the strong, marital tyranny, protection of orphans and widows, and laws we still use today like “innocent until proven guilty.”
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Quotes by Hammurabi (1 quotes)
“demonstrate justice within the land, destroy evil and wickedness, stop the mighty from exploiting the weak”
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Quotes about Hammurabi (2 quotes)
“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.”
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“The laws of Hammurabi became for all ancient societies a legacy comparable to Rome's gift of order and government to the modern world.”
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