Criminalised Quotes & Sayings

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world. — C.S. Lewis

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment. — Wayne W. Dyer

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed. — Rudolf Steiner

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. — Will Smith

Besides the propositions which assert Sequence or Co-existence, there are some which assert simple Existence; 36 and others assert Causation, which, subject to the explanations [pg 083] which will follow in the Third Book, must be considered provisionally as a distinct and peculiar kind of assertion. — John Stuart Mill

When children are demonised by the newspapers, they are often described as feral,' wrote George Monbiot in the Guardian.6 'But feral is what children should be: it means released from captivity or domestication. Those who live in crowded flats, surrounded by concrete, mown grass and other people's property, cannot escape their captivity without breaking the law. Games and explorations that are seen as healthy in the countryside are criminalised in the cities. Children who have never visited the countryside live under constant restraint. — Gary Younge

That is the way of science and art, it is beloved by your societies and criminalised by your cultures. — Steve Merrick

...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact translation, no precise definition in English, because the word in itself is its definition... Well, my dear Longfellow, I would say countersuffering ... the notion that each sinner must be punished by continuing the damage of his own sin against him... just as these Schismatics are cut apart... — Matthew Pearl

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them. — Sunil Gangopadhyay

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident. — Charles Ferguson

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis