Quotation Explorer - 'Fiat'

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them. - Saul Bellow, Herzog
Fiat justitia, ruat caelum. (Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.) - Anonymous
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