Stephen Bright famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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.
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
Stealing to eat ainâ€™t criminalâ€”stealing to be rich is.
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

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