"When the horrors of anarchy force us..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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More on Law
“If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.”
“Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.”
“By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.”
More on Society
“It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.”
“How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?”
“I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.”