"Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it."

-- Barry Farber

#Law Quotes #Crime Quotes #Willingness Quotes

“Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.”
“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.222, Head of Zeus
“You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him.”
“You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets at once with magic, "Kim said, still disgruntled. "That'd 'reflect my unique background', all right".”
“I'm higher than a hippie at Woodstock”

Source : "With Hudson, no meltdown for Fusion / Miami coach riding high atop the MLS" by Dwight Chapin, www.sfgate.com. July 03, 2001.
“If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.”
“One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.”

Source : Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (2007). “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism”, p.110, Chicago Review Press
“Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.”

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