#mina

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #degeneration #enterprise #originality #pencils

We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#exploitation #fear #violence #life

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. (“The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”) ↗

— William Beckford

#criminal #life

You'll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#better-moments #burkett #career #determination #faith

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes. ↗

— Roopleen

#aim #ambition #attitude #celebrate #challenges

Every society has the criminals it deserves. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#criminal #emma-goldman #politics #society #anarchism

If you say you can or you can't you are right either way ↗

— Henry Ford

#faith #inspirational #motivational #positive-attitude #positive-thinking

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#conflicts #device #eliminate #entire #found

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those things we thought we could see existed at all. All that was really there was still more misery-- oh yes! as much of that as you like-- and bullets into the bargain! ↗

— Émile Zola

#germinal #misery #tancock #dreams

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#code #eliminate #information #tax #tax code