"Really, what we want now, is not..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
More by Mark Twain
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee IacoccaLove is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently”
“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”
More on Crime
“[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.”
“The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.”
“Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”
More on Insanity
“Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.”
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.”
“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”