Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
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tiny.ag/xegn7lp8 · submitted 2001
Is it justice to let a rapist or murderer live? How so? Are the scales balanced when a man who has robbed a woman of her sanctity and humanity, or who has smashed another man off the face of the earth, is permitted to live-- not only permitted to live but provided, at the expense of the very same people he has violated, with food, clothing and shelter for the rest of his natural life?
RHJunior, Is it justice to let him not live?
tiny.ag/3lqjz71h · submitted 2001
The question in criminal justice is not "prevention" or "deterrence." The question is whether or not we the people should tolerate a behavior, and if not, how it should be punished.
tiny.ag/rs74lahz · submitted 2001
A society which does not punish its criminals shall inevitably be ruled by them.
tiny.ag/hy1ytp32 · submitted 2001
All legislation dictates morality. The only question is: whose morality shall be legislated? Thus far, the legislation of militant nonjudgementalism-- the legalized attempt to abolish moral absolutes-- has only generated a society where nothing is forbidden, anything goes, and everyone lives in a state of ever-deeper chaos and fear....
tiny.ag/w5gqkjb2 · submitted 2001
Educators cannot dictate from a stand of "religious neutrality." It is impossible. Firstly, because morality is innately a religious question-- whom do we answer to, and for what.
Secondly, when the teacher banishes the priest, the minister, and the rabbi from the schoolroom, she is implicitly declaring her own religious views-- the religion of agnostic humanism-- to be morally superior to them all....
tiny.ag/tv6bbfq8 · submitted 2001
Fables Certain People Should Read:
the National Endowment of the Arts:
"The Emporer's New Clothes"
tiny.ag/rmk6bd1d · submitted 2001
Fables Certain People Should read:
Environmentalists: "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
tiny.ag/flvcysut · submitted 2001
Pro-abortionists and death penalty opponents run in the same circles for an obvious reason. Whether they admit it or not they are both married to the same ugly moral proposition: the right to kill with impunity.
tiny.ag/snykjrwq · submitted 2001
As a people, we make less stringent demands of scientific proof from people claiming environmental catastrophe than the average tabloid makes of alien abductees.
tiny.ag/abbma2d4 · submitted 2001
Im much to young to feel this damn old.
Garth Brooks, "Much to young to feel this damn old"
tiny.ag/thklgnhe · submitted 2001
The wisest people in the world are those who know that they don't know everything.
Connor Gleason, just made it up
tiny.ag/xqgbsl9x · submitted 2001
Everything is a fact, until proven otherwise
Raoul Stasse, a fact remains a Theory
tiny.ag/fqvyndnb · submitted 2001
"The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons."
tiny.ag/pqelun67 · submitted 2001
De mortuis nil nisi bonum
Ancient latin saying, "Of the Dead, speak nothing but Good"
tiny.ag/olfn6fia · submitted 2001
All we're really doing right now is killing time until time kills us.
tiny.ag/2hqbi8cp · submitted 2001
Love represented in mathematics is an infinite function. Limitless and Continuos and unbounded by time
Ameya, Experience
tiny.ag/q18jpmot · submitted 2001
Curiosity might have killed the cats, but ignorance kills the society.
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