12society Quotes & Sayings

The extreme intellectual elegance of the proposal to legalize the distribution and consumption of drugs, touted as the solution to so many problems at once (AIDS, crime, overcrowding in the prisons, and even the attractiveness of drugs to foolish young people) should give rise to skepticism. Social problems are not usually like that. Analogies with the Prohibition era, often drawn by those who would legalize drugs, are false and inexact: it is one thing to attempt to ban a substance that has been in customary use for centuries by at least nine-tenths of the adult population, and quite another to retain a ban on substances that are still not in customary use, in an attempt to ensure that they never do become customary. Surely we have already slid down enough slippery slopes in the last thirty years without looking for more such slopes to slide down. — Theodore Dalrymple

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information. — David Cross

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law! — Trey Gowdy

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. — Thomas Hobbes

Tears are liquid love. — Peter Shepherd

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars. — Ann McLane Kuster

I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesn't know
when to stop giving. — Trista Mateer

No. The old gods ain't big on 'sorry,'" said Granny, pacing up and down again. "They know it's just a word. — Terry Pratchett

I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government. — Bill Scott

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me. — Harvey Weinstein

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer. — Nigel Lythgoe