Asa Larsson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

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