These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker compares laws to spider webs that trap the weak but are easily broken by the powerful and wealthy.
- In plain terms
- Laws often only punish the weak while the rich ignore them.
- What can you take from it?
- Laws may only constrain those without power.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do laws protect the powerless?
- How can power influence law?
Another view
Some laws do effectively limit powerful entities.
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