"In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes."

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Source : "A New Model of the Universe" by P.D. Ouspensky, (p. 37-38), 1932.

P.D. Ouspensky

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“Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“Being close ain't good enough.”
“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”
“If you are going to spend for one group, you have to spend the same for every group, just like if you tax one group you have to tax everybody. You have to go back to having more general laws, more general taxes and more general spending programs.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“The wind in a man's face makes him wise.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.66
“Food is better medicine than drugs”

Source : Patrick Holford, Jerome Burne (2011). “Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs: Don't go to your doctor before reading this book”, Hachette UK
“The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.”

Source : Policraticus Bk II, Ch. 29
“You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.”

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