"The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death."

-- John Peter Altgeld

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“My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category.”

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“I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.”
“I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price.”

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“My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.”
“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.”
“That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.”
“They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.”
“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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