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if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”
That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we’ll never know.”
where there are little crimes, large crimes are not far behind.”
some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they’re doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.
didn’t like the phrase “The innocent have nothing to fear,” believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like “The innocent have nothing to fear”;
“What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together.”
Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.
