Punishment deters best when regarded as expiation.
Feb 072014
Punishment deters best when regarded as expiation.
It is so much easier not to be wrong than to be right.
No government strong enough to provide liberty is weak enough to preserve it.
In the most intractable arguments, one party regards as a question of degree what the other regards as one of kind.
The critique is usually pertinent, the positive program disastrous.
You can divorce your wife but not your generation.
One ought to reorganize one’s opinions at least as often as one’s closets.
People should do their own thinking no more than they should do their own plumbing.
Today we hear silence as our ancestors heard music.
We all speak truth to power that we are sure will pay us no mind.