Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
H. L. Mencken
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Our need will be the real creator.
Plato
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
Albert Einstein
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
Charles Dickens
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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
H. L. Mencken
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch
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Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
