"If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance."

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Source : Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

Daniel Guerin

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“It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment â€” the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. Itâ€™s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.”
“Strategists who donâ€™t take time to think are just planners.”
“A lot of people write in to me and say that they feel like The Uni-verse has abandoned them. Now, that is a very interesting story. There are some times where we are meant to be lost or confused. I had a long period in my life that felt like a holding pattern - it felt like stasis. But what was happening during that time was I was getting stronger on the inside. And that is change you can't SEE right away.”
“The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.”
“The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.”

Source : "What is this foolish lust for uncertainty?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.
“We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.”
“Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.”
“... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.”

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