Valium would have helped that bash.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all. . . why then perhaps we must stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.
A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.
Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.
I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years - the underlying basis for enormous increases in productivity and human welfare and rising living standards, particularly in the United States, and in the industrialized nations but in fact, in most parts of the world.