With writing came the codes, and when we compare the statutes of hammurabi, who flourished about 2,200 years B.C., with those compiled by his successors, Moses, Solon, Justinian and Napoleon, we find in them all evidence of the same mental appreciation and capacity in dealing with the social conditions and problems of their respective periods.
"The Black Man's Place in South Africa"
Peter Nielsen
I would give this as one very good rule to bear in mind; your love life exists for the happiness and health of yourself and your partner, and not for hammurabi, nor Moses, nor Jehovah, nor your mother-in-law, nor anybody else on the earth or above it.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
This state must have passed beyond the lower stages of civilisation at the time when the princes erected temples to their gods at more than one chief place in their dominions, when they could busy themselves with buildings in honour of the gods after the example of the ancient princes of Erech and Nipur, of hammurabi, and his successors at Babylon.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
