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John Nettles, in the voice of DCI Tom Barnaby:

When killing become entertainment, we all lose touch with reality.

Think Donald Trump’s war on Iran.

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Cato the Elder:

Those who commit private theft pass their lives in confinement and fetters; plunderers of the public, in gold and purple.

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Ursula Goodenough:

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

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Caroline Graham:

“I must say,” said Simon . . . , “I never realized how tiring long-term insincerity could be. I shall never envy politicians again.”

Graham, Caroline, Murder at Maddingley Grange (London: Headline Publishing Group, 2009) p. 122

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Pericles:

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

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Voltaire:

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.

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Heinz von Foerster:

Objectivity is a subject’s delusion that observing can be done without him. Involving objectivity is abrogating responsibility – hence its popularity.

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Harry Turtledove;

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

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Bill Downs:

The fault of democracy everywhere, including the United States of America, is that too few people make use of it.

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Henry S. Haskins:

Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.

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Edward Gibbon:

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

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Charles Fourier:

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

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Moliere:

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.

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Carl Eckart:

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

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Emile Durkheim:

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Afterthought:

Methinks we are seeing evidence of the accuracy of this statement every day.

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Oskar Schindler:

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

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Immanuel Kant:

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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David Ferguson:

I don’t ever want to hear that we don’t have food for children ever ever ever again. . . . Bombs cost millions of dollars and you can only use the once and suddenly the pockets are bottomless when it’s time the shoot and kill people and drop bombs on them, but when it’s time to feed children or pay teachers, we can’t do that.

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Horatio Nelson:

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

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Goparaju Ramachandra Rao:

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

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