Users Quotes - Page 6

• Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Book, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What Men Live By and Other Tales”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

  George McGovern

  War, Drug, Would Be

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• If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Common Sense, Drug

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.247, Algora Publishing

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• The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Inspirational, War, Struggle

  Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.

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• . . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, War, Justice

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• Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, War, Government

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• Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Honesty, War, Exercise

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• There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

  Lysander Spooner

  Life, War, Law

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• Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

  Michael Ventura

  Life, War, Justice

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• I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

  Charles Dickens

  War, Believe, Blow

  Charles Dickens (1974). “The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 3. 1842-1843”, OUP Oxford

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• Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  War, Ideas, Drug

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• I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.

  Carl E. Olson

  War, Marijuana, Drug

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• So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, America, Drug

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• It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, War, Drug

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• Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

  G. K. Butterfield

  Football, Player, Skulls

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• The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

  Peter McWilliams

  War, People, Choices

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Drug, Can Do

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• To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Drug, World

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• Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Drug, Minorities

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• This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Technology, Typewriters

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• The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, Organization, People

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• The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Differences, Drug

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• The least flexible component of any system is the user.

  Lowell Jay Arthur

  Flexible, Components, Flexibility

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• Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

  Eli Pariser

  Google, Information, Able

  "5 Questions with Eli Pariser, Author of ‘The Filter Bubble’". Interview with Bryan Walsh, techland.time.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

  Jared Spool

  Technology, Giving, Design

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