To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 2 Key Quotes & Sayings

He did a terrible thing and eliminating him would have left the world tidier. Or so goes the logic of the last fifty years of American justice. We throw away flawed people, people who have made terrible mistakes, with regularity and great alacrity. We jail drug dealers for decades, and we execute killers. We want them away. Out of sight. — Dave Eggers

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity, — Ben Goldacre

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered ... — Leo Tolstoy

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate. — Judy Holliday

There's the appeal of the young thief who robs you, and climbs back down off your cloud. It's possible to love that boy, in a wistful and hopeless way. It's possible to love his greed and narcissism, to grant him that which is beyond your own capacities: heedlessness, cockiness, a self-devotion so pure it borders on the divine. — Michael Cunningham

Life is short, death is forever — Marsha Qualey

The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge. — Thomas Piketty

Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean. — P.C. Cast

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism. — Alan Keyes