Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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H. G. Wells
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The future is the shape of things to come.
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Cynicism is humour in ill health.
To be honest one must be inconsistent.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.