"If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.”
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
“All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.”
“Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.”
“I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.”
“Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific
“We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.”

Source : David Stove (2017). “On Enlightenment”, p.164, Routledge
“If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.”

Source : "Buzz Bissinger’s Trip". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2012.

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