“There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.”
Edward Abbey book Hayduke Lives
Hayduke Lives (1990)
“There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.”
Edward Abbey book Hayduke Lives
Hayduke Lives (1990)
“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”
Douglas Hurd (1930) British Conservative politician and novelist
Hurd takes on prison reform trust http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hurd-takes-on-prison-reform-trust-1283200.html (15 January 1997)
“The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion”
Amory B. Lovins (1947) American physicist
[This much I know: Amory Lovins, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/23/ethicalliving.lifeandhealth4, The Guardian, 2008-11-20]
“3918. Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 3162. Learning makes a good Man better, and an ill Man worse.
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
“Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 42 (p. 427)
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
22 August 1875.
The Walk With God (1919)
Context: There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.
Lester del Rey (1915–1993) Novelist, short story writer, editor
“And leaves the misery rate at a maximum.”
Source: The Eleventh Commandment (1962), Chapter 12 (p. 116)