SocietyThomas Szasz Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz Collective Quotes Creates Quotes Democratic Quotes Distinctions Quotes Guilt Quotes Individual Quotes Meaningful Quotes Meaningless Quotes Mind Quotes Moral Quotes Odious Quotes Prefer Quotes Punishment Quotes Responsibility Quotes Society Quotes Unfashionable Quotes Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Steve Earle My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. – Steve Earle
Fred HamptonRespect I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced. – Fred Hampton
Arthur Machen It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. – Arthur Machen
Raja Krishnamoorthi The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics. – Raja Krishnamoorthi
Jim Cornette Johnny Valentine’s the one who said, ‘I can’t make them believe that wrestling is real, but I can make them believe I’m real.’ It would take him forever because he was just stinkingly boring for 30 minutes of the 40-minute match, but he would let people hit him as hard as they could, and he would hit people as hard as he could. – Jim Cornette
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