"The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power."

-- Jerry Brown

#Thinking Quotes #Punishment Quotes #People Quotes

“From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.”
“Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.”
“The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.”
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”
“In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.”
“I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.”

Source : "Person of the Week: Steven Squyres". ABC News, abcnews.go.com. January 09, 2004.
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”

Source : Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade
“It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable”

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