02-01-2022, 10:26 AM
“Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.”
Colin Wilson, The outsider
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
'The only plausible case for capital punishment, among those who believe the state has the right to kill in the interests of social order, is not the fiction that it ‘ deters ‘ people from murder – although it may indeed may make some think twice – but that it gets rid of mad-dog sociopaths whose life, if preserved with even the slightest hope of eventual freedom, would be a lethal menace to innocent & ill-protected people. Obviously, few murderers belong in this category.’
Robert Hughes, The fatal shore
Colin Wilson, The outsider
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
'The only plausible case for capital punishment, among those who believe the state has the right to kill in the interests of social order, is not the fiction that it ‘ deters ‘ people from murder – although it may indeed may make some think twice – but that it gets rid of mad-dog sociopaths whose life, if preserved with even the slightest hope of eventual freedom, would be a lethal menace to innocent & ill-protected people. Obviously, few murderers belong in this category.’
Robert Hughes, The fatal shore
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)