"To vest a few fallible men â€” prosecutors, judges, jurors â€” with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius."

-- Jerome Frank

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.”
“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.”

Source : "New Warning Labels: Ruining Smokers’ Days?" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. June 21, 2011.
“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”
“The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.”
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.”
“To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.”

Source : Johann Friedrich Herbart, Friedrich Fröbel (1977). “The science of education”
“Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.”

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