Pasquier Quesnel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Vices are their own punishment

  • Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

  • Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

  • Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

  • Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

  • The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.

  • When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

  • To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

  • Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

  • While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.