"An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion."

-- Jeremy Bentham

#Cutting Quotes #Idols Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.”
“I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.”
“For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.”
“No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.”
“In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.”
“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.”

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