Daniel Guerin Quotes
If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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My imagination creates my reality.
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The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
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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.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.
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God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
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And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.
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All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
