"The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong."

-- Ernest Van den Haag

#Punishment Quotes #Matter Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“It's important for me to live up to my reputation.”
“There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved.”
“I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.”
“The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.”
“Donâ€™t confuse progress with winning.”
“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.”

Source : Augustus Y. Napier, PhD (2010). “The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage”, p.44, Harper Collins
“Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.”
“Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinksâ€”a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.”

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