"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."

-- Howard Mumford Jones

#Law Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We as producers need to keep an eye on things and make sure we're doing great stuff, which is sometimes easy to do because of the talent we have, and sometimes not so easy.”
“The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.”
“Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.”
“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”
“A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.”
“If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes.”

Source : "Semantics and the Philosophy of Language" edited by L. Linsky, Urbana, (p. 41), 1952.
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”

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