Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe. Heraclitus
The objection I have to the whipping-post is that it is a punishment which cannot be inflicted by a gentleman. The person who administers the punishment must, of necessity, be fully as degraded as the person who receives it. Robert G. Ingersoll
The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men. Immanuel Kant
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. Walter Lippmann
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. Tom G. Palmer
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. William Wordsworth