Frederic Manning famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.
-- Frederic Manning

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Vices are their own punishment
Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.
Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.
Without coffee somethingâ€™s missing
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

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