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"Everything which is not forbidden is allowed" is a legal maxim. It is the concept that any action can be taken unless there is a law against it. [1] [2] It is also known in some situations as the "general power of competence" whereby the body or person being regulated is acknowledged to have competent judgement of their scope of action.
Coffee is forbidden, the use of motorcars banned and meat proscribed twice a week, until one says of Fascism, “Everything which is not compulsory is forbidden.” Yet the very men who grumble about liberty, taxes, Germans, coffee and revolution are proud that Mussolini has gained prestige for Italy.
In quantum mechanics, the totalitarian principle states: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." Physicists including Murray Gell-Mann borrowed this expression, and its satirical reference to totalitarianism, from the popular culture of the early twentieth century.
" Everything which is not forbidden is allowed " is a legal maxim. It is the concept that any action can be taken unless there is a law against it. It is also known in some situations as the " general power of competence " whereby the body or person being regulated is acknowledged to have competent judgement of their scope of action.
He called it an assumption that “is related to the state of affairs that is said to prevail in a perfect totalitarian state. Anything that is not compulsory is forbidden.”
“Everything not forbidden is compulsory” ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King tags: absurd , government , humor , totalitarianism
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In science, the saying goes, if it can happen in nature it will. This Totalitarian Principle expressed by Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann actually originated with Plato.
The totalitarian principle in physics adapts the phrase to read: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." The Robert Heinlein 1940 short story "Coventry" uses a similar phrase to describe an authoritarian state: "Anything not compulsory was forbidden".
The totalitarian principle in physics adapts the phrase to read: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." The Robert Heinlein 1940 short story "Coventry" uses a similar phrase to describe an authoritarian state: "Anything not compulsory was forbidden".