No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCHe who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbIt seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983