Quotes
Authors
Glenn Loury

"Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their fury at social dysfunction reflected in the law. Our sentences are way too long. We need to look at the war on drugs, which is to say we need to look and this is easier said than done. Once again, politically, not an easy lift at all. Nevertheless, our policy is self-defeating. We're not keeping people from using the substances. We're creating a huge black market, just like we did under prohibition, which attracts all kinds of criminal enterprise."

Source : Source: bigthink.com

Glenn Loury

#War Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.”
“...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.”
“If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.”
“Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.”
“A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him: "You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not mention it so much. It is always the purchaser who first disparages what he wants to buy. If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because, as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently."”
“I mean, if your about to tell me something like I'm dead, that i need to start acquiring a taste for blood, and I can't even eat sushi, I wont be able to handle it. Or if you're going to tell me that I'm going to start howling at the moon, eating peoples cats, and will spend the rest of my life having to get waxed if I want to wear a bathing suit, then I don't think I can handle it, either. I like cats and I tried waxing once, and that hurt like a son of a gun." -Kylie”
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

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